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| Comprehension of Informational Text
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Develop and apply 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identify the characteristics of nonfiction materials such as textbooks, appropriate reference materials, research and historical documents, personal narratives, diaries, and journals, biographies, newspapers, letters, articles, web sites and other online materials, other appropriate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 appropriate content-specific 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, end notes, works cited, other informational aids encountered in informational texts
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Use organizational aids such as titles, chapter titles, headings, subheadings, tables of contents, numbered steps, glossaries, indices, transition words, other organizational aids encountered in organizational texts
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Use online features such as URLs, hypertext links, sidebars, drop down menus, home pages, site maps, other features characteristic of online texts
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Identify and explain the contributions of text features to support the main idea of the text
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Develop and apply knowledge of organizational structure of informational text to facilitate understanding |
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Identify and analyze the organizational patterns of texts such as sequential and/or chronological order, cause/effect, problem/solution, similarities/differences, description, main idea and supporting details, transition or signal words and phrases that indicate the organizational pattern
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Explain how the organizational pattern clarifies and reinforces meaning and supports the author's/text's purpose
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Determine and analyze 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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Explain relationships between and among ideas such as comparison/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/chronology
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Synthesize ideas from text
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Distinguish between a fact and an opinion
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Explain how someone might use the text
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Connect the text to prior knowledge or experience
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Analyze purposeful use of language |
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Analyze specific words or phrases that contribute to the meaning of a text
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Analyze specific language choices that create tone
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Analyze the effect of repetition of words and phrases on meaning
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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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Analyze changes or additions to the structure and text features that would make the text easier to understand
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Analyze the text and its information for reliability
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Determine and explain whether or not the author's argument or position is presented fairly
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Identify and explain information not included in the text
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Identify and explain language and other techniques intended to persuade the reader
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