Comprehension: Text comprehension is supported by applying varied strategies and processes and by considering both particular contexts and universal themes.
Guiding Question: How are messages understood?
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Learning Outcome: Children demonstrate understandings of messages communicated in texts.
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Knowledge
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Understanding
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Skills & Procedures
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New words and ideas can be learned by listening to texts.
The language in texts that is listened to can contain more complex words and ideas than everyday language.
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Understanding messages in texts can be enhanced by listening to texts read aloud.
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Listen to a variety of texts that are read aloud.
Engage in discussions about texts that have been listened to.
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Knowledge
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Understanding
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Skills & Procedures
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Texts often repeat words and phrases through patterns that can be recognized.
Understandings of messages within texts can be shared in a variety of ways, including
- discussions
- pictures with a few letters or words
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Predictable and decodable texts support a reader’s understanding.
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Read aloud simple, predictable, and decodable texts.
Share understandings of messages read independently.
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Knowledge
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Understanding
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Skills & Procedures
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Details include specific information that help the reader to understand texts.
Sequencing involves putting events in a correct or an appropriate order.
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Understanding texts involves describing ideas, information, and details.
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Discuss ideas and details from texts.
Sequence events from a text.
Retell the beginning, middle, or ending of a text.
Retell or dramatize a story, including characters and events.
Interpret illustrations.
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Understanding
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Skills & Procedures
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Connections can be made to ideas and information in texts, including to
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Understanding messages in texts involves making connections.
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Share connections between a text and personal feelings or experiences.
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Understanding
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Questions that help understand messages in texts include
- Who?
- What?
- Where?
- When?
- Why?
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Understanding messages in texts involves asking and answering questions.
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Ask questions to clarify ideas or information in texts.
Answer questions about ideas or information in texts.
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Knowledge
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Understanding
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Skills & Procedures
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Predicting includes imagining what might happen based on information (critical thinking), including
- title
- pictures
- details within the text
- background knowledge
Predictions can be made prior to or during reading, viewing, or listening to texts.
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Understanding messages involves making predictions.
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Make predictions based on information provided in texts.
Compare actual outcomes to predictions made.
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