- Add new vocabulary words to known words and use them in discussion and writing
- Recognize and actively work to learn the meaning of new vocabulary
- Recognize subtle meaning for words used in context
- Recognize new meanings for known words by using context, including words used figuratively
- Follow and remember multiple events in a story, often involving multiple characters to understand the plot
- Understand how one event builds upon another
- Access the important information in the text
- Remember important information over several days of reading
- Access prior information summarized from the text while hearing more
- Summarize orally and in writing
- Notice and understand the problem in a story and how its solved
- Notice and understand attributes and actions that will help understand character development
- Notice and remember details of the setting to discuss the impact it has on characters and problem
- Identify and discuss the problem, events of the story and the problem resolution
- Self monitor understanding and ask questions when meaning is lost
- Notice and remember significant information from illustrations or graphics
- Notice and respond to stress and tone of voice in text
- Understand the meaning of words when they are satirically
- Build meaning across several texts
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- Make connections to prior knowledge and use it to identify and incorporate new knowledge
- Apply background knowledge gained from experience, content study, and wide reading
- Make connections between the lives and motivations of characters and their own lives, even if the setting is a fantasy world or in the past
- Make predictions based on information in the text as to what will happen, what characters are likely to do, and how it will end.
- Infer characters’ feelings and motivation from description, what they do or say, and what others think about them.
- Hypothesize underlying motivations of characters that are not stated
- Interpret the mood of the text, using illustrations in combination with the writers tone
- Interpret graphics and integrate information with the text
- Hypothesize the significance if the setting in influencing characters decisions and attitudes (fiction, biography)
- Support thinking beyond the text with specific evidence based on personal experience or knowledge or evidence from the text
- Make connections to other texts by topic, major ideas, style of writing, genre
- Asks questions about concepts
- Notice new information and ideas and revise ideas in response to it
- Hypothesize the significance of events in the story
- Maintain memory of many different texts and use them as resources for making connections
- Notice and discuss the information provided in section titles, headings, and subheadings to predict information provided in text
- Form implicit questions and search for answers in the text while listening and during discussion
- Identify and discuss cultural and historical perspectives that are in conflict in the text or that are different from their own perspective
- Derive and interpret the writer’s underlying messages & theme
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- Notice and understand text structure including description, temporal sequence, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution
- Evaluate the quality or authenticity of the text, including the writer’s qualifications
- Make note of interesting new words and intentionally remember them to use in oral discussion or writing
- Critically examine the writer’s word choice
- Notice the writer’s use of graphics and effective ways of placing them within the text
- Notice and discuss why the writer used graphic features such as labels, heading, subheading, sidebars, legends
- Recognize, understand, and discuss some obvious symbolism
- Recognize the genre of the text and use it to form expectations
- Analyze an author’s characteristic way of writing- characters, plot, style
- Analyze the way an author creates authentic characters
- Recognize and discuss the differences between narrative and other structures
- Understand and discuss how layout contributes to the meaning and effectiveness of both fiction and nonfiction texts
- Recognize and discuss the artistic aspects of a text, including how illustrations and narrative form a cohesive whole
- Notice how the writer has organized an informational text (categories and subcategories, sequence and others)
- Recognize the narrator of the text and discuss how the choice of first or third person point of view contributes to the effectiveness of the writing
- Provide specific examples and evidence to support statements about the quality, accuracy or craft of the text
- Recognize the genre of the text and use it to form expectations of the text
- Notice and appreciate the author’s use of figurative and literary language to evoke imagery, feeling and mood.
- Think critically about informational texts in terms of quality writing, accuracy and logic of conclusions
- Recognize and discuss aspects of narrative structure (beginning, series of events, high point in the story, ending
- Notice how the writer reveals the underlying messages or the theme of a text (through a character, through plot & events)
- Recognize argument and persuasion
- Derive the moral meaning of a text
- Identify evidence that supports argument
- Identify internal and external conflict
- Recognize multiple points of view
- Use specific vocabulary to talk about texts: author, illustrator, cover, wordless picture book, picture book, character, problem, events, series book, dedication, endpapers, book jacket, title page, chapters, resolution, main character, setting, fiction, nonfiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, author’s note, illustrator’s note, double page spread, names of fiction genres (like historical fiction, legend), character development, point of view, theme
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