Alabama 9th Grade Reading Standards for Physical Education
LiteracyTA provides reading skills that Alabama educators use to teach Alabama 9th Grade Reading Standards for Physical Education.
The Alabama literacy standards are the what. The skills below and the related eCoach discussions are the how. In the table below, you will find next to each Alabama reading standard practical skills, classroom resources, rich conversations and teaching ideas that move all students toward achieving Alabama standards!
Key Ideas and Details
RI1

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Identifying Evidence
Locate evidence or supporting details in a text that support authors' claims.

Introducing Sources
Use these writing templates to practice introducing sources.

Making Inferences
Draw conclusions about ideas in a text that are not directly stated.

Marking a Text
Identify and isolate essential ideas in a text.

Socratic Seminar
Engage in a structured academic discussion that focuses on a text that has been read.

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Three Group Socratic Seminar
Work in teams of three to discuss a text and share ideas with all members in a Socratic circle.

WH Organizer
Answer six questions that help provide basic information about a person, an event, or an idea.

Writing in the Margins
Think about the text and write ideas in the margin.

RI2

Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course
of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific
details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Expanding Summary
Write about the main ideas in a text, adding more information with each new summary.

Investigative Reading
Pause while reading to explore and examine ideas in a text.

Read 1, Speak 2, Write 3
Read a paragraph or two, discuss the text, and write down main ideas.

Sequence/Process Organizer
Summarize how events, individuals, or ideas develop over time or summarize steps in a process.

Source Summary
Summarize an author's argument/main ideas, key supporting details, text structure, and purpose.

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Summarizing Main Ideas
Identify the main ideas in a paragraph(s) and synthesize them into a few concise sentences.

Visual Summary
Draw illustrations that represent the main ideas in a text.

Writing in the Margins
Think about the text and write ideas in the margin.

RI3

Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events,
including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and
developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
Analyzing Text Structure
Analyze how sentences and paragraphs are structured to communicate an idea.

Cause and Effect Organizer
Keep track of cause and effect relationships in a text.

Compare and Contrast Organizer
Keep track of ideas that are being compared and contrasted in a text.

Investigative Reading
Pause while reading to explore and examine ideas in a text.

Problem and Solution Organizer
Keep track of problems and solutions in a text.

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Sequence/Process Organizer
Summarize how events, individuals, or ideas develop over time or summarize steps in a process.

Visual Summary
Draw illustrations that represent the main ideas in a text.

Craft and Structure
RI4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the
cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the
language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Analyzing Diction and Tone
Examine the words an author uses in a text to identify his/her tone.

Analyzing Rhetorical Devices
Analyze rhetorical devices in a written or spoken text.

Critical Concepts
Record concepts that are essential to the message of a text.

Evaluating Rhetorical Devices
Evaluate the rhetorical decisions (devices) a speaker/writer makes in a text.

Understanding Vocabulary in Context
Use context clues to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words in a text.

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Writing about Rhetorical Devices
Effectively write about rhetorical and literary devices with our IDEA Method.

Writing in the Margins
Think about the text and write ideas in the margin.

RI5

Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by
particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or
chapter).
Analyzing Text Structure
Analyze how sentences and paragraphs are structured to communicate an idea.

Investigative Reading
Pause while reading to explore and examine ideas in a text.

Sequence/Process Organizer
Summarize how events, individuals, or ideas develop over time or summarize steps in a process.

Visual Summary
Draw illustrations that represent the main ideas in a text.

RI6

Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an
author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Analyzing a Speech
Engage in rhetorical analysis in order to identify various elements of speech.

Analyzing Author's Point of View
Read deeply to understand how personal experience and beliefs influence an author's point of view.

Analyzing Author's Purpose
Read deeply to understand how context, experience, and topic of a text reveals an author's purpose and point of view.

Analyzing Diction and Tone
Examine the words an author uses in a text to identify his/her tone.

Argument Map
Engage in rhetorical analysis in order to identify various elements of an argument.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RI7

Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a
person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are
emphasized in each account.
Analyzing Advertisements
Analyze advertisement to better understand persuasive techniques.

Analyzing Data
Analyze and interpret data in informational texts.

Analyzing Visuals
Analyze visuals in a text to better understand content and author's purpose.

Evaluating Sources
Use this handout to evaluate the credibility of print and online sources.

RI8

Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing
whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient;
identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
Analyzing a Speech
Engage in rhetorical analysis in order to identify various elements of speech.

Analyzing Evidence
Identify evidence in a text and analyze how it is used.

Analyzing Rhetorical Devices
Analyze rhetorical devices in a written or spoken text.

Argument Map
Engage in rhetorical analysis in order to identify various elements of an argument.

Argument Poster
Visually represent the main ideas or central argument in a text.

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Evaluating Evidence
Evaluate the effectiveness of a speaker/writer's evidence or supporting details.

Evaluating Rhetorical Devices
Evaluate the rhetorical decisions (devices) a speaker/writer makes in a text.

Identifying Evidence
Locate evidence or supporting details in a text that support authors' claims.

Marking a Text
Identify and isolate essential ideas in a text.

Synthesizing Claims
Synthesize claims in a text in order to understand an author's central claim.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
RI10

By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades
9–10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high
end of the range.
By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high
end of the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.