New Jersey Graduate Proficiency Assessment (NJGPA) · English Language Arts

Reading Informational Text

Read and analyze informational and argument texts (essays, speeches, articles, historical documents): central ideas, how ideas develop and connect, author's purpose and rhetoric, and evaluating claims and evidence — the reading foundation of the Research Simulation Task.

Lessons in this topic

Central Ideas, Evidence, and Objective Summary
How Ideas Develop: Structure, Connections, and Word Choice
Purpose, Point of View, and Rhetoric
Evaluating Arguments and Seminal U.S. Documents

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