Organizing Idea
COMPREHENSION 1: Students investigate meaning communicated in texts.
GR. 1 - ORGANIZING IDEA: COMPREHENSION
Comprehension: Text comprehension is supported by applying varied strategies and processes and by considering both particular contexts and universal themes.
Guiding Question: What messages are conveyed through ideas and information within texts?
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Learning Outcome: Students investigate meaning communicated in texts. |
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Texts that are listened to can contain more formal or complex language than everyday language.
Responses to messages listened to in texts include
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Understanding text can be enhanced by listening to messages read aloud. |
Listen to a variety of fictional and informational texts that are read aloud.
Respond to texts that have been read aloud.
Understand words and phrases from texts that have been read aloud. |
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Understanding of messages in texts read independently can be shared through
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Predictable and decodable print texts can be read and understood independently. |
Read simple, fully predictable, and decodable texts independently.
Understand words and sentences from print texts read independently.
Share understandings of print texts read independently. |
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Word solving includes
Self-correcting includes
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Comprehension involves critical thinking through problem solving, monitoring, and self-correcting. |
Solve unknown words in a variety of ways.
Self-correct when print text does not make sense. |
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The main idea of a text is the most important idea.
Sequencing key ideas and details is important when summarizing texts.
The moral or lesson of a text can be the main idea. |
Understanding texts involves determining the main idea, key ideas, and details. |
Discuss the main idea of a variety of texts. Identify key ideas and details from texts. Sequence four to six events from a text. Retell the beginning, middle, or ending of a text. Retell or dramatize a story, including characters and setting. Interpret information from illustrations or visuals in texts. Identify the moral or lesson of a story. |
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Connections can be made between ideas and information in texts and background knowledge.
Similarities and differences can be identified between texts. |
Comprehension of texts involves making connections. |
Share personal connections to ideas or information in texts.
Identify similarities and differences between two texts. |
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Questions that guide comprehension of texts include
Texts can contain information that answers questions.
The same words can be in both the question and the answer (literal recall). |
Comprehension involves asking and answering questions. |
Ask questions to clarify information in texts.
Answer questions requiring literal recall and understanding of examples, details, or facts in texts.
Answer questions that require giving opinions about information in texts.
Locate information in texts to answer questions. |
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Predicting includes imagining an outcome based on a combination of information, including
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Comprehension can be enhanced by making predictions. |
Make predictions prior to and while reading, viewing, or listening to a text.
Compare actual outcomes to predictions made. |
