| 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 print and non-print informational texts, including electronic media |
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Read, use, and identify the characteristics of nonfiction materials such as textbooks, appropriate reference materials, personal narratives, diaries, and journals, biographies, newspapers, letters, articles, web sites and other online materials, other appropriate content-specific texts to gain information and content knowledge
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Read, use, and identify the characteristics of functional documents such as sets of directions, science investigations, atlases, posters, flyers, forms, instructional manuals, menus, pamphlets, rules, invitations, recipes, advertisements, other functional documents
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Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts |
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Use print features such as large bold print, font size/type, italics, colored print, quotation marks, underlining, and other print features encountered in informational texts
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Use graphic aids such as illustrations and pictures, photographs, drawings, sketches, cartoons, maps (key, scale, legend, graphs, charts/tables, and diagrams, other graphic aids encountered in informational texts
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Use informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation key, transition words, boxed text
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Use organizational aids such as titles, chapter titles, headings, subheadings, tables of contents, numbered steps, glossaries, indices, transition words
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Use online features such as URLs, hypertext links, sidebars, drop down menus, home pages, site maps
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Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning
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Develop knowledge of organizational structure of informational text to understand what is read |
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Identify and analyze the organizational patterns of texts such as sequential and/or chronological order, similarities/differences, main idea and supporting details, cause/effect, and problem/solution
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Identify and use words and phrases associated with common organizational patterns such as words that show chronology (first, second, third), description (above, beneath, next to, beside), cause and effect (because, as a result), sequence (next, then, finally)
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Determine important ideas and messages in informational texts |
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Identify and explain the author's/text's purpose and intended audience
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Identify and explain the author's opinion
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State and support main ideas and messages
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Summarize or paraphrase
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Identify and explain information not related to the main idea
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Identify and explain relationships between and among ideas such as comparison/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/chronology
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Draw conclusions and inferences and make generalizations and predictions from text
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Distinguish between a fact and an opinion
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Identify and explain how someone might use the text
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Connect the text to prior knowledge or experience
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Identify and explain the author's use of language |
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Identify and explain specific words or phrases that contribute to the meaning of a text
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Identify and explain specific words and punctuation that create tone
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Identify and explain the effect of repetition of words and phrases
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Read critically to evaluate informational text |
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Explain whether the text fulfills the reading purpose
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Identify and explain additions or changes to format or text features that would make the text easier to understand
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Identify and explain information not included in the text
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Identify and explain words and other techniques that affect the reader's feelings
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