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COMPREHENSION 2: Students examine and apply a variety of processes to comprehend texts.
FLUENCY 2: Students apply fluency strategies while reading.
GR. 2 - 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: How does comprehension facilitate the meaning of a text?
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Learning Outcome: Students examine and apply a variety of processes to comprehend texts. |
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Texts that are listened to can contain more complex language and information than texts read independently.
Responses to texts that are listened to include
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Text comprehension can be enhanced by listening to a variety of texts read aloud. |
Listen and respond to a variety of fictional and informational texts that are read aloud.
Examine and use words and phrases from texts that have been read aloud. |
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Understanding of print texts read independently involves
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Print texts can be understood independently. |
Read texts that contain mostly predictable and decodable words independently.
Examine and use words and sentences from print texts that have been read independently.
Interpret ideas and information from print texts read independently. |
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Word solving includes
Self-correcting includes
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Comprehension of print texts involves self-monitoring and self-correcting. |
Solve unfamiliar or multisyllabic words in a variety of ways.
Self-correct when meaning is unclear while reading. |
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The topic of a text can be the main idea.
The sequence of key ideas and details is important when summarizing texts. |
Comprehension involves critical thinking through summarizing the main idea, key ideas, and details. |
Summarize a text, including the main idea and key ideas.
Sequence four or more events from a text.
Retell or dramatize a story, including characters, setting, and plot, in sequence.
Interpret information from illustrations or visuals when summarizing texts. |
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Connections can be made to ideas and information in texts, including to
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The process of text comprehension can be improved by making connections. |
Share personal connections that support understandings of ideas or information in texts.
Identify similarities and differences within a text.
Identify similarities and differences between texts. |
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Questioning includes asking or answering questions regarding
Answers to questions may not be immediately apparent and may involve searching for more information.
Answers to questions may involve integrating new information with background knowledge. |
Comprehension can be enhanced by formulating questions and searching for answers within texts. |
Ask questions to clarify information in texts.
Answer questions requiring literal recall and understanding of evidence, details, or facts from texts.
Answer questions that require making interpretations or giving opinions about information in texts.
Answer questions that require recognizing cause and effect relationships in texts. |
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Predicting includes imagining an outcome based on a combination of information, including
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Comprehension can be supported by making and revising predictions. |
Make predictions prior to and while reading, viewing, or listening to a text.
Revise understandings in response to new information.
Compare actual outcomes to predictions made. |
GR. 2 - ORGANIZING IDEA: FLUENCY
Fluency: Comprehension and literary appreciation are improved by the ability to read a range of texts accurately, automatically, and with expression.
Guiding Question: In what ways does fluency support the development of reading?
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Learning Outcome: Students apply fluency strategies while reading. |
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Letter combinations, sounds, and morphemes that can be blended quickly and accurately for reading include
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Fluency development contributes to the ability to understand messages. |
Blend sounds quickly and accurately to decode unfamiliar messages.
Apply language structure, meaning, and rapid word recognition to support fluency.
Read at a steady, comfortable pace. |
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High-frequency words include words that occur often in written language.
The ability to recognize high-frequency words with accuracy and at an appropriate rate supports reading comprehension. |
Recognizing high-frequency words supports reading comprehension. |
Read 175 high-frequency words automatically.
Read high-frequency words in sentences and texts. |
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Reading fluency is supported by
Pace is the rate at which written messages are read.
Phrasing is reading smoothly by grouping words together into meaningful phrases with punctuation.
Expression is reading with feeling in the voice and includes various movements of the voice (pitch).
Punctuation supports reading with fluency through pausing and intonation.
Quotation marks signal to the reader to align voice with characters in a written message. |
Fluent reading can engage audiences and improve comprehension. |
Read with appropriate stress on words, pausing, and phrasing.
Read with appropriate intonation and expression.
Examine punctuation in written messages to enhance fluency.
Read dialogue with phrasing and expression to engage an audience and reflect understanding. |
