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| Vocabulary
: Students will use a variety of strategies and opportunities to understand word meaning and to increase vocabulary. |
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Understand, acquire, and use new vocabulary |
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Use context to determine the meanings of words
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| General Reading Comprehension
: Students will use a variety of strategies to understand what they read (construct meaning). |
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Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading) |
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Identify and explain the main idea
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Identify and explain information directly stated in the text
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Draw inferences and/or conclusions and make generalizations
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Confirm, refute, or make predictions
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Summarize or paraphrase
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Connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience
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| Comprehension of Informational Text: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate informational text. |
| Comprehension of Informational Text
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Apply comprehension skills by selecting, reading, and interpreting a variety of print and non-print informational texts, including electronic media |
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Read, use, and identify the characteristics of primary and secondary sources of academic information such as textbooks, trade books, reference and research materials, periodicals, editorials, speeches, interviews, articles, non-print materials, and online materials, other appropriate content-specific texts
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Read, use, and identify the characteristics of workplace and other real-world 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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Analyze text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts |
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Analyze print features that contribute to meaning
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Analyze graphic aids that contribute to meaning
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Analyze informational aids that contribute to meaning
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Analyze organizational aids that contribute to meaning
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Analyze online features that contribute to meaning
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Analyze the relationship between the text features and the content of the text as a whole
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Apply knowledge of organizational patterns of informational text to facilitate understanding |
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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, order of importance, transition or signal words and phrases that indicate the organizational pattern
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Analyze the contribution of the organizational pattern to clarify or reinforce meaning and support the author's purpose and/or argument
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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 argument, viewpoint, or perspective
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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 or ideas peripheral to the main idea or message
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Explain relationships between and among ideas
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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 word choice that contributes to the meaning and/or creates style
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Analyze specific language choices to determine tone
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Analyze repetition and variation of specific words and phrases that contribute to meaning
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Read critically to evaluate informational text |
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Analyze the extent to which the text fulfills the reading purpose
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Analyze the extent to which the structure and text features clarify the purpose and the information
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Analyze the text and its information for reliability
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Analyze the author's argument or position for clarity and/or bias
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Analyze additional information that would clarify or strengthen the author's argument or viewpoint
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Analyze language and other techniques intended to persuade the reader
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| Comprehension of Literary Text: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary text. |
| Comprehension of Literary Text
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Analyze text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts |
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Analyze text features that contribute to meaning
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Analyze elements of narrative texts to facilitate understanding and interpretation |
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Distinguish among types of grade-appropriate narrative such as short stories, folklore, realistic fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, essays, biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, plays, and lyric and narrative poetry
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Analyze the events of the plot
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Analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters
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Analyze characterization
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Analyze relationships between and among characters, setting and events
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Analyze the actions of characters that serve to advance the plot
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Analyze internal and/or external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot
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Analyze the author's approach to issues of time in a narrative
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Analyze the point of view
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Analyze the interactions among narrative elements and their contribution to meaning
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Analyze elements of poetry to facilitate understanding and interpretation |
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Analyze language and structural features to determine meaning
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Analyze sound elements of poetry that contribute to meaning
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Identify and explain other poetic elements such as setting, mood, tone, etc., that contribute to meaning
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Analyze elements of drama to facilitate understanding and interpretation |
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Analyze the action of individual scenes and acts and their relationship to the plot
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Analyze how stage directions affect dialogue, characters, and plot
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Analyze important ideas and messages in literary texts |
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Analyze main ideas and universal themes
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Analyze similar themes across multiple texts
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Summarize or paraphrase
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Reflect on and explain personal connections to the text
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Explain the implications of the text for the reader and/or society
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Analyze the author's purposeful use of language |
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Analyze how specific language choices contribute to meaning
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Analyze language choices that create tone
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Analyze figurative language that contributes to meaning and/or creates style
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Analyze imagery that contributes to meaning and/or creates style
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Analyze elements of style and their contribution to meaning
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Read critically to evaluate literary texts |
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Analyze the plausibility of the plot and the credibility of the characters
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Analyze the extent to which the text contains ambiguities, subtleties, or contradictions
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Analyze the relationship between a literary text and its historical and/or social context
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