Reading Informational |
| RI.1: Key Ideas and Details |
| RI.1.2 | Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. |
| RI.2: Key Ideas and Details |
| RI.2.2 | Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. |
| RI.3: Key Ideas and Details |
| RI.3.2 | Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. |
| RI.4: Key Ideas and Details |
| RI.4.2 | Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. |
Speaking & Listening |
| SL.5: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas |
| SL.5.5 | Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. |
| SL.6: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas |
| SL.6.5 | Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information. |
| SL.7: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas |
| SL.7.5 | Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points. |
| SL.8: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas |
| SL.8.5 | Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest. |
Writing |
| W.1: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.1.6 | With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. |
| W.2: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.2.6 | With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. |
| W.3: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.3.6 | With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. |
| W.4: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.4.6 | With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting. |
| W.5: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.5.6 | With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting. |
| W.6: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.6.6 | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. |
| W.7: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.7.6 | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources. |
| W.8: Production and Distribution of Writing |
| W.8.6 | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others. |
A blog post becomes a colorful diagram that highlights the article’s key words and ideas.
By clicking Randomize at bottom of screen, users can generate a new diagram with different fonts, layouts, and colors.
An easy-to-use text box invites users to paste in their text.
Users can manually adjust features by clicking on toolbar.
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English Language ArtsGrade 9
