| 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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