February 26 2020

This weeks blog post on the Common Core State Standards on reading informational texts points out a lot of things that I do now in classes. I looked specifically at grades 9-10, and found that many of the standards were actually helpful in explaining how we as learners and teachers can help our students achieve these standards for reading informational texts. These standards take into account how students can analyze a text to understand the different aspects about the texts they are reading. We are taught as English majors to not take into account the author and their personal life, however these standards have students analyze the authors purpose or point of view that they are trying to get across through their writing. I have always thought that considering the authors background and point of view was important for fully understanding any text that you are trying to understand an analyze academically.
This is something I appreciate being put into the standards because of its importance, and I felt that this set of standards outlined very well and in detail the standards for reading informational texts, and in turn lets us know as teachers what we should be looking for to help our students.
I thought that the standards about vocabulary within the informational text that is being read was important, because it pushes students to think about words and the specificity of their meaning not only with the given text, but within other contexts that they may or may not have seen or heard. This broadens the scope of their vocabulary, and furthers the understanding of the given text when you have students take a deeper look at specific words. Overall, I thought that these standards were a bit more concise than the others we have looked at so far, and I wonder why that is.

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