Print:
Informational:
Reading/ELA:
Standard 2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text
Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate informational text.
Topic
A. Comprehension of Informational Text
Indicator
- 1. Develop comprehension skills by reading a variety of informational texts
Objectives
- Listen to nonfiction materials
- Nonfiction trade books
- Picture dictionaries
- Simple maps
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Multimedia resources
- Listen to and use functional documents by following simple oral or rebus directions
- Science investigations
- Recipes
- Rules
- Signs and posters
- Center activities
- Labels
- Classroom schedules
- Listen to and use personal interest materials, such as books and magazines
Indicator
- 2. Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts
Objectives
- Identify print features
- Bold print
- Print size
- Labels
- Numbered steps
- Identify graphic aids
- Illustrations
- Pictures
- Photographs
- Drawings
- Maps
- Graphs
- Charts
- Diagrams
- Use informational aids
- Materials lists
- Labels
- Numbered steps
- Identify organizational aids
- Title
- Table of contents
- Numbered steps
Indicator
- 3. Develop knowledge of organizational structure of informational text to understand what is read
Objectives
- Recognize sequential order
- Recognize similarities and differences
- Recognize description
Indicator
- 4. Determine important ideas and messages in informational texts
Objectives
- State the text's purpose
- Identify the main idea/text's message
- Retell important facts from a text
- Identify how someone might use the text
Indicator
- 5. Evaluate informational text
Objectives
- State whether the text fulfills the reading purpose
- Tell what the author could have done to make the text easier to understand
- Tell whether the author's ideas are clear
Indicators/objectives that include assessment limits are assessed on MSA *New Standards identifies the need for students to process 1 million words per year to maintain academic progress.
11/15/07
