Organizing Idea
COMPREHENSION 4: Students investigate strategies and connections that support text comprehension.
GR. 4 - ORGANIZING IDEA: COMPREHENSION
Text comprehension is supported by applying varied strategies and processes and by considering both particular contexts and universal themes.
Guiding Question: How do comprehension processes and strategies enhance understandings of texts?
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Learning Outcome: Students investigate strategies and connections that support text comprehension. |
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A variety of reading processes and strategies support comprehension of longer and more complex texts through independent practice. |
Comprehension processes and strategies can be purposefully applied to broaden understandings of texts. |
Independently read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of texts that increase in length or complexity.
Apply comprehension processes and strategies when interacting with texts. |
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Connections that support comprehension of text include
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Comprehension is enhanced when relevant connections are made to information within and between texts. |
Examine connections between texts and self, between a text and other texts, and between texts and the world.
Compare or contrast aspects of texts within an individual text or between multiple texts.
Reflect on personal connections to a text that best support understandings. |
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Significant information that is synthesized to make predictions includes
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Comprehension and making predictions have a reciprocal relationship when understanding texts. |
Revise or confirm predictions based on new or additional information in texts.
Examine how making, modifying, or confirming predictions supports text comprehension. |
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Inferencing involves multiple critical thinking skills, including
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Comprehension involves inference and relying on multiple critical thinking skills when engaging with texts. |
Infer cause and effect relationships in texts.
Make inferences in texts that reach beyond personal experiences.
Combine information from various sources to draw conclusions.
Infer ideas that are not explicitly stated in texts. |
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Summarizing information involves determining key ideas and specific details, logically ordering ideas, and paraphrasing.
Synthesizing can create new understandings through a combination of background knowledge and new information from a text. |
Comprehension is enhanced when information is synthesized and summarized. |
Synthesize a variety of information when creating summaries of texts.
Create personal responses to a variety of literature, informational texts, or other texts by synthesizing information. |
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Strategic reading and questioning occur before, during, and after reading.
Problem solving can occur at the word, sentence, and whole-passage level.
Reading comprehension skills that address challenges include
Metacognition is an awareness of thoughts and how one thinks and involves
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The reading comprehension process involves checking for understanding, problem solving, and metacognition. |
Apply self-monitoring skills to self-correct when comprehension breaks down during reading.
Evaluate skills that can be implemented to repair and strengthen reading comprehension.
Apply metacognitive strategies that are personally effective when reading. |
