Critical analysis is at the core of all Language Arts standards. Language Arts students are expected to be able to read a piece of text, analyze it in which they carefully and critically formulate ideas about the text based on what it says directly and what they’ve inferred, point to multiple pieces of evidence to support their theories, and most importantly, explain the process of their analysis.
a.nal.y.sis (noun)
a detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as the basis for discussion or interpretation.
The process of text analysis in Language Arts looks like this:
