- Follow the events of a plot with multiple events
- Follow plots that have particular patterns, such as accumulation or circular structure
- Pick up important information and remember to use it in discussion
- Tell a summary of the text after reading
- Talk about interesting and new information in a text
- Understand the problem in a story
- Understand when and why the problem is solved
- Recognize characters and report important details after reading
- Notice and derive information from pictures
- Derive meaning of new words from context
- Provide specific examples and evidence from the text to support thinking
- Use details from illustrations to support points made in discussion
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- Bring background knowledge to understanding characters and their problems
- Bring background knowledge to understanding the content of a text
- Make connections between texts and their own life experiences
- Predict what will happen next
- Predict what will happen after the end
- Make predictions about what the character is likely to do
- Use evidence from the text to support predictions (I think…because)
- Infer characters’ intentions or feelings
- Interpret the illustrations
- Discuss specific examples from the text to support to justify the ideas they are expressing
- Make connections between familiar texts and discuss similarities and differences
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- Notice and understand texts that are based on sequences such as numbers, days of the week, months, seasons
- Recognize and identify some aspects of text structure such as beginning, events in sequential order and ending
- Understand that the author wrote the book and an artist illustrated the book
- Discuss the characteristics of the work of authors and illustrators
- Notice words that the writer has used to make the story or content interesting
- Have opinions about texts and state the basis for opinions
- Understand fiction as stories that are not real and nonfiction as texts that provide real information
- Understand realistic fiction as stories that could be real and fantasy as stories that could not be real
- Compare different versions of the same story, rhyme or traditional tale
- Use specific vocabulary to talk about texts: author, illustrator, cover, wordless picture book, picture book, character, problem, solution, information book, nonfiction, fiction
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