Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.9.R.2.2
The Standard
Evaluate the support an author uses to develop the central idea(s) throughout a text.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify a text's central idea and examine how the author supports it from beginning to end. They judge whether each reason, fact, example, quotation, or statistic is relevant and convincing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students state the central idea accurately and trace how facts, examples, quotations, and statistics develop it across the text. They explain which support is strongest and identify weak, irrelevant, or insufficient evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat the topic as the central idea or choose one interesting detail as the main point. They may label any evidence as strong without checking relevance, credibility, or sufficiency.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article and ask: Which detail best supports the central idea, and why is it stronger than another detail?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups printed claims and evidence cards to sort into strong, weak, irrelevant, and unreliable support, then require one reason per card.
Ask students to write: Which piece of support most strengthens the central idea, and what would the text lose without it?
Run an evidence bracket where pairs compare two details, select the stronger one, and defend each choice using relevance and credibility.
Compare two online articles about the same school issue and judge which author uses more convincing facts, examples, and sources.
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Related Standards
- ELA.12.R.2.2
Evaluate how an author develops the central idea(s), identifying how the author could make the support more effective.
- ELA.6.R.2.2
Analyze the central idea(s), implied or explicit, and its development throughout a text.
- ELA.3.R.2.2
Identify the central idea and explain how relevant details support that idea in a text.
- ELA.8.R.2.2
Analyze two or more central ideas and their development throughout a text.
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