Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part XI - Accountability/Testing
Subpart 5 - Bulletin 127-LEAP Connect Assessment, Louisiana Connectors for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Chapter 93 - English Language Arts
Subchapter H - Grade 7
Section XI-9342 - Reading Informational Text

A. Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences, conclusions, or summaries of text.

B. Determine the central idea of a text.

C. Analyze the development of the central idea over the course of the text.

D. Create an objective summary of a text.

E. Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).

F. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text including figurative (i.e., metaphors, similes, and idioms) and connotative meanings.

G. Analyze how the use of figurative, connotative or technical terms affect the meaning or tone of text.

H. Use signal words as a means of locating information.

I. Outline a given text to show how ideas build upon one another.

J. Determine the structure of a text.

K. Determine how the information in each section contribute to the whole or to the development of ideas.

L. Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.

M. Compare/contrast how two or more authors write or present about the same topic.

N. Identify an argument or claim that the author makes.

O. Evaluate the claim or argument to determine if they are supported by evidence.

P. Distinguish claims or arguments from those that are supported by evidence from those that are not.

Q. Use supporting evidence to summarize central ideas, draw inferences, or analyze connections within or across texts.

R. Compare/contrast how two or more authors write about the same topic.

S. Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.

T. Read or be read to a variety of informational texts or adapted texts.

U. Use a variety of strategies to derive meaning from a variety of print and non-print informational texts.