Organizing Idea
COMPREHENSION 6: Students interpret and respond to texts through application of comprehension strategies.
GR. 6 - 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 strategies enhance interpretations of texts?
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Learning Outcome: Students interpret and respond to texts through application of comprehension strategies. |
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Comprehension strategies can be used to interpret and respond to increasingly complex texts and include
Self-monitoring skills can support comprehension and interpretation of texts read independently. |
Comprehension, interpretation, and management of information from increasingly complex texts are enhanced through application of a variety of critical thinking strategies and skills. |
Incorporate a variety of strategies to comprehend, interpret, and manage information from texts.
Evaluate the effectiveness of comprehension strategies used to interpret texts read independently.
Apply a variety of self-monitoring skills to comprehend and interpret texts. |
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Making text to self, text to text, and text to world connections can support analyzing, summarizing, and synthesizing texts.
Analyzing texts includes reading closely to examine ideas and information in texts separately and in relationship to each other. |
Comprehension of texts includes analyzing, summarizing, and synthesizing information and ideas. |
Respond to texts by summarizing main ideas and providing supporting evidence from the texts.
Make connections between new ideas and information in texts and known ideas and information.
Analyze ideas and information to support comprehension and interpretation of texts.
Synthesize ideas and information in texts to confirm or expand understandings. |
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Conclusions can be judgements reached based on information that is stated in or inferred from texts.
Context clues in texts include
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Comprehension and interpretation of texts requires attention to explicit and implicit contextual information and ideas. |
Revise or confirm predictions based on new or additional information and sources.
Infer meanings from texts based on context clues.
Interpret and draw conclusions from texts using stated and implied ideas or information.
Distinguish between information that is stated and inferred.
Analyze ideas and information using text evidence. |
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Perspectives can evolve for a variety of reasons, including
Critical thinking involves considering the thoughts and experiences of others to develop empathy.
Authors can explicitly and implicitly share perspectives through text creation.
Bias is the favouring of one thing, person, or group over another, usually in a way that is considered to be unfair. |
Interaction with texts can deepen comprehension, expand perspectives, and help readers learn more about themselves. |
Connect perspectives reflected in texts to personal experiences.
Analyze factors that cause characters in texts to change their perspectives.
Compare personal perspectives to varied perspectives found in texts.
Select the information needed to support a perspective.
Share how considering differences in perspectives can develop empathy.
Consider whether an author or a text creator presents information with or without bias. |
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Texts are situated in and can be influenced by specific historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Specific historical and social contexts influence understandings of texts.
Historical contexts include time and place.
Social contexts include beliefs.
Contexts can change and affect how texts are understood.
Artifacts as texts can provide insights into contexts of people, time, or place.
Authors or text creators may present information to deliberately influence an audience’s beliefs, perspectives, values, or understandings, such as advertising or social media. |
Historical, social, and cultural contexts can support readers in examining influences on texts. |
Analyze texts to determine contextual information that supports how a text can be understood.
Examine information in a text that implies or confirms that the context has changed.
Examine changes in context that affect actions, behaviors, or feelings of characters in texts.
Examine artifacts as texts that can provide insights into contexts of people, time, or place.
Consider how information in a text may be presented to influence an audience. |
