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Alabama Standards

Alabama 10th Grade ELA Standards

All 34 Alabama English language arts standards for 10th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Alabama State Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

34 standards

Recurring Standards for Grades 9-12

7 standards
10.R1
Pull useful facts from print and nonprint materials, like an apartment lease or a product safety video, to handle the demands of everyday life and work.
10.R2
Understand literature on both a literal and a figurative level, like the plot and the symbols of a modern novel, adjusting to the kind of text and its purpose.
10.R3
Show active listening in formal and informal talk, like paraphrasing a partner's point, while keeping to the ground rules set for the discussion.
10.R4
Handle digital and electronic tools in safe, appropriate, and ethical ways, like checking privacy settings and never passing off others' work as your own.
10.R5
Take writing through planning, revision, peer editing, and rewriting, like a literary analysis draft, so the final piece is focused and coherent for its audience.
10.R6
Apply standard grammar, punctuation, and usage, like keeping verb tense consistent, to communicate clearly with a particular audience.
10.R7
Work out what unfamiliar words mean in reading or listening from the surrounding context, like a contrast signaled by the word however.

Critical Literacy

11 standards
10.1
Read and critically judge complex fiction and nonfiction from many cultures, mainly works from outside the US and British Isles since 1600, like Things Fall Apart.
10.2
Analyze and judge the information in graphics, like a political cartoon or data table, to reach conclusions, support claims, and make choices.
10.3
Analyze how an author's culture and outlook shape the style, language, and themes of a work, like Chinua Achebe's use of Igbo proverbs.
10.4
Interpret how a writer's point of view, characters, figurative language, literary elements, and word connotations and denotations work together to build meaning.
10.5
Use a work's context and structure to work out its theme, tone, and overall meaning, like how flashbacks build the mood of a novel.
10.6
Compare or contrast perspectives in texts of every kind, from novels and articles to podcasts and websites, made in different eras and cultures, beyond the grade's focus.
10.7
Analyze and judge texts in science, history, and other subjects to learn how each field handles specialized terms and arranges information, like a textbook chapter.
10.8
Evaluate a speaker's purpose and credibility by listening actively to their tone, structure, content, and nonverbal cues, like the gestures in a TED talk.
10.9
Write short and long narratives with well-ordered events, evidence-backed explanations, and soundly reasoned arguments, fitting style and tone to the audience.
10.10
Present research to peers in a formal or casual way, blending reliable, accurate details from several sources and media, like articles, interviews, and videos.
10.11
Join discussions where people hold different views, responding to others and offering your own points backed by evidence and commentary, like a debate on a novel's ending.

Digital Literacy

4 standards
10.12
Interpret digital texts, like an online news article or a blog, to work out the topic, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
10.13
Interpret a digital audio source, like a radio interview or an audiobook excerpt, to figure out its topic, occasion, listeners, purpose, tone, and trustworthiness.
10.14
Write and edit shared digital texts with others, like a group slideshow or a co-written website, matching purpose and tone to the audience and occasion.
10.15
Create and give a presentation alone or with a group, like a talk on a modern world author, with purpose and tone suited to the listeners and occasion.

Language Literacy

5 standards
10.16
Interpret how grammar choices and rhetorical style build meaning in fiction and nonfiction, like the long sentences of a novel or the crisp lines of a workplace memo.
10.17
Decide how formal a piece of language is, like a text message versus a cover letter, so you can understand it, interpret it, and reply appropriately.
10.18
Examine how a speaker uses persuasion, artistic style, and organization to reveal their viewpoint and goal, like a commencement address.
10.19
Apply language conventions, from punctuation, capitalization, and spelling to verb, pronoun, and modifier use and sentence structure, with a steady, consistent style.
10.20
Change your speaking style for different tasks, purposes, and audiences, like a job interview or a team huddle, showing strong formal English when it fits.

Research Literacy

7 standards
10.21
Track down credible, relevant information and judge how useful it is for answering a question, solving a problem, or defending a stance, like sources for a debate.
10.22
Find credible sources using several search tools and strategies, like Boolean operators in a library database.
10.23
Draw reliable, useful information from audio, like an expert interview or a radio report, to answer questions, solve problems, or back up a position.
10.24
Follow ethical research habits, like avoiding plagiarism and keeping accurate notes, to write clear, coherent pieces suited to a specific audience and purpose.
10.25
Blend information from at least two kinds of sources, like a book and a website, into writing with quotes, paraphrases, and summaries cited consistently in one style.
10.26
Write a clear, coherent piece drawing on at least one scholarly and one non-scholarly source to argue a stance, answer a research question, or solve a problem.
10.27
Present clear, coherent research products built on ethical practices, like giving credit on every slide, with language fit for the audience and purpose.

The official Alabama documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Alabama's standards, not the official wording, which Alabama State Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.