SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS FOR CULMINATING ACTIVITY:
Using Reading Comprehension Strategies
1.2 select and use, with increasing facility, the most appropriate reading comprehension strategies to understand texts, including complex and challenging texts
Demonstrating Understanding of Content
1.3 identify the most important ideas and supporting details in texts, including complex and challenging texts
Making Inferences
1.4 make and explain inferences of increasing subtlety and insight about texts, including complex and challenging texts, supporting their explanations with well-chosen stated and implied ideas from the texts
Extending Understanding of Texts
1.5 extend understanding of texts, including complex and challenging texts, by making rich and increasingly insightful connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights; other texts; and the world around them
Analyzing Texts
1.6 analyze texts in terms of the information, ideas, issues, or themes they explore, examining how various aspects of the texts contribute to the presentation or development of these elements
Elements of Style
2.3 identify a variety of elements of style in texts and explain how they help communicate meaning and enhance the effectiveness of the texts
Reading Familiar Words
3.1 automatically understand most words in a variety of reading contexts
Interconnected Skills
4.2 identify a variety of their skills in listening, speaking, writing, viewing, and representing and explain how the skillshelp them read more effectively
1.2 select and use, with increasing facility, the most appropriate reading comprehension strategies to understand texts, including complex and challenging texts
Demonstrating Understanding of Content
1.3 identify the most important ideas and supporting details in texts, including complex and challenging texts
Making Inferences
1.4 make and explain inferences of increasing subtlety and insight about texts, including complex and challenging texts, supporting their explanations with well-chosen stated and implied ideas from the texts
Extending Understanding of Texts
1.5 extend understanding of texts, including complex and challenging texts, by making rich and increasingly insightful connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights; other texts; and the world around them
Analyzing Texts
1.6 analyze texts in terms of the information, ideas, issues, or themes they explore, examining how various aspects of the texts contribute to the presentation or development of these elements
Elements of Style
2.3 identify a variety of elements of style in texts and explain how they help communicate meaning and enhance the effectiveness of the texts
Reading Familiar Words
3.1 automatically understand most words in a variety of reading contexts
Interconnected Skills
4.2 identify a variety of their skills in listening, speaking, writing, viewing, and representing and explain how the skillshelp them read more effectively