Resources
for Maine Learning Results in
 English Language Arts

1.1.1 Students read from texts, within a grade appropriate span of
text complexity, and apply their knowledge and strategies of
comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.

1.1.2 Students read and draw conclusions from texts, within a grade
appropriate span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge and
strategies of comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.

1.1.3 Students read and draw conclusions from texts, within a grade
appropriate span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge and
strategies of comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.

1.1.4 Students read and draw conclusions from texts, within a grade
appropriate span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge and
strategies of comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.

1.1.5 Students read and make generalizations about texts, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge
and strategies of comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.

1.1.6 Students read and make generalizations about texts, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge
and strategies of comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.
Grade 8
1.1.7 Students read and make generalizations about texts, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge
and strategies of comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.
Grades 9-Diploma
1.1.8 Students read and evaluate texts, within a grade appropriate
span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge and strategies of
comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.

1.1.9 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity.

1.1.10 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity.

1.1.11 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity.

1.1.12 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity.

1.1.13 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the
characteristics noting how structural features and common literary
devices help shape the reader’s response.

1.1.14 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the
characteristics noting how structural features and common literary
devices help shape the reader’s response.

1.1.15 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the
characteristics, noting how structural features and common literary
devices help shape the reader’s response.

1.1.16 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, and present analyses using
excerpts from the text to defend their assertions.

span of text complexity, for different purposes.

1.1.17 Students read and summarize informational texts, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, for different purposes.

1.1.18 Students read, paraphrase, and summarize informational
texts, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, for different
purposes.

1.1.19 Students read, paraphrase, and summarize informational
texts, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, for different
purposes.

1.1.20 Students read various informational texts, within a grade
appropriate span of text complexity, making decisions about
usefulness based on purpose, noting how the text structures affect the
information presented.

1.1.21 Students read various informational texts, within a grade
appropriate span of text complexity, making decisions about
usefulness based on purpose, noting how the text structures affect the
information presented.

1.1.22 Students read multiple informational texts, within a grade
appropriate span of text complexity, making decisions about
usefulness based on purpose, noting how the text structures affect the
information presented.

1.1.23 Students evaluate the validity, truthfulness and usefulness of
ideas presented in informational texts, within a grade appropriate span
of text complexity, noting how the text features and text structures
affect the information presented.

No performance indicator.

1.1.24 Students read persuasive texts, within a grade appropriate
span of text complexity, to analyze the persuasive writing.

1.1.25 Students read persuasive texts, within a grade appropriate
span of text complexity, to analyze the persuasive writing.

1.1.26 Students read persuasive texts, within a grade appropriate
span of text complexity, to analyze the persuasive writing.

1.1.27 Students evaluate the information in persuasive texts, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, noting how the structural
features and rhetorical devices affect the information and arguments
presented in these texts.

1.1.28 Students evaluate the information in persuasive texts, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, noting how the structural
features and rhetorical devices affect the information and arguments
presented in these texts.

1.1.29 Students evaluate the information in persuasive texts, within a
grade appropriate span of text complexity, noting how the text
structures and rhetorical devices affect the information and arguments
presented in these texts.

1.1.30 Students evaluate the validity, truthfulness and usefulness of
ideas presented in persuasive texts, within a grade appropriate span of
text complexity, noting how the text structures and rhetorical devices
affect the information and argument(s) presented.