Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.A:
Students form opinions and make judgments about the validity of persuasive texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.B:
Students generate a list of significant questions to assist with analysis of text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.C:
Students analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including:

• determine the writer's perspectives, purposes, and intended audiences
• determine the reliability and significance of information
• recognize the format and its significance to content

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.D:
Students analyze and evaluate poetry in order to recognize the use and effect of:

• sensory imagery
• figurative language
• verse form

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.E:
Students evaluate poetry to recognize the use and effect of verse form.

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.F:
Students analyze and evaluate fiction, including:

• the background in which the text is written
• the effect created by the author's tone or mood

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.G:
Students form opinions and make judgments about literary works, by analyzing and evaluating texts from more than one critical perspective, such as cultural and historical.

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.H:
Students select, reject, and reconcile ideas and information in light of beliefs.

Performance Indicator - ELA.10.R.3.I:
Students make judgments about the quality of literary texts and performances by applying personal and academic criteria, such as that found in literary criticism.