Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.1.A:
Students locate and use school, public, academic, and special library resources for information and research:

• use primary and secondary sources, such as dictionaries and abstracts
• set purpose for reading by asking questions about what they need to know for their research

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.1.B:
Students check consistency of hypothesis with given information and assumption.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.1.C:
Students analyze and synthesize information from different sources by making connections and showing relationships to other texts, ideas, subjects, and the world at large:

• employ a range of post-reading practices to think about new learning and to plan future learning

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.2.A:
Students recognize and analyze the relevance of literature to contemporary and/or personal events and situations from short stories, novels, plays, film and video productions, poems, and essays:

• read and discuss literary criticism
• engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to make applications of the ideas in the text to other situations, extending the ideas to broaden perspectives

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.2.B:
Students read, view, and respond independently to literary works that represent a range of social, historical, and cultural perspectives.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.2.C:
Students compare a film, video, or stage version of a literary work with the written version.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.2.D:
Students read literary texts aloud to convey an interpretation of the work.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.2.E:
Students read and interpret literary texts from a range of authors, genres, and subjects, including literary criticism.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.2.F:
Students interpret multiple levels of meaning and subtleties in text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.A:
Students analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including professional journals, technical manuals, and position papers, to determine the writer's perspectives, purposes, and intended audience:

• identify text structure, using supports such as graphic organizers
• preview a text (e.g., in order to build a schema), noticing structural markers, such as headings and subheadings
• focus on key word/phrases that signal that the text is heading in a particular direction
• identify the particular kinds of language used in particular texts

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.B:
Students analyze and evaluate poetry in order to recognize the use and effect of:

• sensory imagery
• figurative language
• verse form

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.C:
Students engage in oral reading activities, such as choral readings, and a variety of written responses, such as double entry journals, to identify and distinguish examples of verse form.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.D:
Students form opinions and make judgments about literary works by analyzing and evaluating texts from more than one critical perspective, such as a social perspective.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.E:
Students select, reject, and reconcile ideas and information in light of beliefs.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.F:
Students make judgments about the quality of literary texts and performances by applying personal and academic criteria, such as that found in literary criticism.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.G:
Students analyze and evaluate the intellectual and/or emotional impact of specific texts on the reader.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.4.A:
Students share reading experiences with a peer or adult; for example, read together silently or aloud, and discuss reactions to texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.4.B:
Students consider the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the writer.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.4.C:
Students understand and anticipate the author's use of tone, diction, and language appropriate to social communication, in a variety of texts and conventions.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.4.D:
Students recognize the types of language (e.g., informal vocabulary, culture-specific terminology, jargon, colloquialisms, and email conventions) that are appropriate to social communication.