| Comprehension of Informational Text: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate informational text. |
| Comprehension of Informational Text
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Develop comprehension skills by reading a variety of self-selected and assigned informational texts |
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Read and recognize nonfiction materials to gain information and content knowledge
- Textbooks
- Trade books
- Grade-appropriate reference materials
- Newspapers
- Articles
- Magazines
- Questionnaires/interviews
- Multimedia resources
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Read and identify functional documents
- Sets of directions
- Science investigations
- Posters
- Flyers
- Forms
- Invitations
- Menus
- Maps
- Recipes
- Rules
- Classroom schedules
- Surveys
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Select and read personal interest materials, such as brochures, books, magazines, and web sites
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Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts |
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Use print features
- Large bold print
- Font size/type
- Italics
- Colored print
- Headings/subheadings and chapter titles
- Labels
- Captions
- Numbered steps
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Use graphic aids
- Illustrations
- Pictures
- Photographs
- Drawings
- Maps
- Graphs
- Charts/tables
- Diagrams
- Materials list
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Use informational aids
- Materials lists
- Timelines
- Captions
- Glossed words
- Labels
- Numbered steps
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Use organizational aids when reading
- Title
- Table of contents
- Numbered steps
- Glossary
- Headings
- Transition words
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Develop knowledge of organizational structure of informational text to understand what is read |
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Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction text
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Recognize words that signal the structure of informational text
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Recognize sequential and chronological order
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Recognize cause/effect relationships
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Recognize similarities and differences
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Recognize description
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Recognize and use main idea and supporting details
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Determine important ideas and messages in informational texts |
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Identify the author's/text's purpose
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Identify main ideas/messages
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Identify information not related to the main idea
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Draw conclusions and generalizations from text to form new understanding
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Distinguish between a fact and an opinion
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Identify how someone might use the text
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Summarize the text or a portion of the text
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Identify prior knowledge that clarifies the main idea of the text
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Identify and explain the author's |
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Identify words and phrases with a specific effect on meaning (similes, metaphors)
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Recognize specific words and punctuation that create tone
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Recognize repetition of words
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Read critically to evaluate informational text |
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State whether the text fulfills the reading purpose
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Explain what the author could have done to make the text easier to understand
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Explain whether the author's ideas are clear
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Identify words that affect the reader's feelings
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