Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.9-10.1
The Standard
Cite relevant and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify what an informational text says directly and what it suggests. They choose relevant details to support both kinds of reading and explain how those details support their thinking.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can make a claim about an article, cite exact lines, and explain how each line supports the claim. For an inference, the student connects several clues without presenting the inference as a stated fact.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may choose a quote that mentions the topic but does not support their claim. They may treat an inference as a stated fact or pile up quotes without explaining them.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page article on school start times. Ask them to write one stated point and one inference, cite a line for the point and two clues for the inference, and explain the clues.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed article on later school start times and two highlighters; mark stated facts in yellow and clues supporting an inference in blue.
Ask: Does the writer favor later start times? Which two lines support your answer, and what else could those lines mean?
Give groups four claims about the article and six numbered excerpts; award a point for each excerpt they can explain as relevant.
Show a bus route change notice; ask students to cite two details to infer which riders must adjust their morning trip.
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Related Standards
- RL.9-10.1
Cite relevant and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- RL.11-12.1
Cite relevant and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- RI.11-12.1
The Grades 11–12 version of this standard.
- RI.8.1
Cite relevant textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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