Smarter Balanced Grade 11 Summative Assessments · Grade 11 English Language Arts

Listening & Interpreting

Interpreting spoken texts (presented here as transcripts): identifying main ideas and key supporting details, following a speaker’s reasoning, and analyzing purpose, tone, and rhetorical choices.

Lessons in this topic

Identifying the Main Idea and Purpose in a Spoken Text
Tracking Supporting Details and the Speaker's Reasoning
Speaker's Point of View, Tone, and Rhetorical Choices

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