- Notice and remember facts, concepts or ideas from text
- Provide an oral summary of a text
- Notice and remember events of a story in sequence
- Notice and understand the problem of a story and how it is solved
- Self-monitor understanding and ask questions when meaning is lost
- Notice and derive information from pictures
- Recognize new meanings for known words using content
- Recognize and actively work to solve new vocabulary words
- Add new vocabulary words to known words and use them in discussion
- Follow multiple events in a story to understand the plot
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- Bring background knowledge to understanding characters and their problems
- Make connections to prior knowledge
- Infer characters’ intentions or feelings
- Infer characters’ feelings and motivations from description, what they do or say, and what others will think about them
- Interpret illustrations and discuss how they make the reader feel
- Use evidence from the text to support predictions (I think…because…)
- Support thinking beyond the text with specific evidence based on personal experience or knowledge or evidence from the text
- Predict what will happen after the end
- Make connections to other texts by topic, major ideas, authors’ styles, and genres
- Specify the nature of connections
- Think about and interpret the significance of events in a story
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- Relate important ideas in the text to each other and to ideas in other texts.
- Recognize and identify some aspects of text structure, such as beginning, events in sequential order, most exciting point in the story, and ending
- Discuss the characteristics of the work of some authors and illustrators
- Notice the writer’s use of language (for example, word choice)
- Notice similarities and differences among texts that are by the same author or are on the same topic
- Talk about the connections between the illustrations and the text
- Recognize how the writer or illustrator has placed ideas in the text and in the graphics
- Form and state the basis for opinions about authors, illustrators and texts (and tells why)
- Understand fiction as stories that could be real and fantasy as stories that could not be real
- Understand biography as the story of a person’s life
- 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, series book, dedication, endpapers, book jacket, title page, chapters, resolution, main characters, setting, fiction, nonfiction, informational book, literary nonfiction poetry
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