F. Informational Text

The high school graduate can:

F1. Follow instructions in informational or technical texts to perform specific tasks, answer questions or solve problems.

F2. Identify the main ideas of informational text and determine the essential elements that elaborate them.

F3. Summarize informational and technical texts and explain the visual components that support them.

(Associated Workplace Tasks: #3 and 6)

F4. Distinguish between a summary and a critique.

F5. Interpret and use information in maps, charts, graphs, time lines, tables and diagrams.

(Associated Workplace Tasks: #3 and 4)

(Associated Postsecondary Assignments: #2 and 3)

F6. Identify interrelationships between and among ideas and concepts within a text, such as cause-and-effect relationships.

F7. Synthesize information from multiple informational and technical sources.

(Associated Workplace Tasks: #4, 5 and 6)

F8. Draw conclusions based on evidence from informational and technical texts.

F9. Analyze the ways in which a text's organizational structure supports or confounds its meaning or purpose.

(Associated Workplace Tasks: #5 and 6)

F10. Recognize the use or abuse of ambiguity, contradiction, paradox, irony, incongruities, overstatement and understatement in text and explain their effect on the reader.

F11. Evaluate informational and technical texts for their clarity, simplicity and coherence and for the appropriateness of their graphics and visual appeal.