NY Next Generation ELA 9-10R9
The Standard
Choose and develop criteria in order to evaluate the quality of texts. Make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, and personal experiences. (RI&RL)
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose and develop criteria for evaluating text quality. They make connections across texts, ideas, cultures, eras, and experiences to support informed judgments.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student creates criteria suited to genre, purpose, audience, and evidence demands. The evaluation applies them consistently and uses contextual connections without reducing quality to preference.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may design criteria that guarantee a favored result. They may treat cultural difference as a defect or make broad historical connections without textual evidence.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to develop a short rubric for a chosen genre, apply it to one text, and explain how one contextual connection affects the judgment.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Test student-created criteria against two strong but different texts and revise weak measures.
Ask students which criteria remain fair across cultures, eras, or perspectives.
Play Rubric Audit with genres, purposes, audiences, and proposed criteria.
Develop criteria for selecting credible, effective sources for a public issue briefing.
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