- Acquire understanding of new words from context
- Use new words in discussion of a text
- Follow the events of a plot an remember them after reading
- Pick up important information and remember to use it in discussion
- Tell a summary of the text after reading
- Understand the meaning of the words during reading
- Talk about characters, problems and events in a story
- Notice and derive information from pictures
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- Bring background knowledge to understanding characters and their problems
- Predict what will happen next
- Make connections between texts and their won life experiences
- Make connections between new texts and previously read texts
- Make predictions about what a character is likely to do
- Infer characters’ intentions or feelings
- Interpret the illustrations
- Use details from illustrations to support points in discussion
- Recognize interesting new information and add it to their understanding
- Give reasons to support thinking
- Notice and understand texts that are based on established sequences such as numbers, days of the week, months, seasons
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- Recognize and identify some aspects of text structure, such as beginning and ending
- Understand that the author wrote the book
- Understand that an artist illustrated the book
- Notice words that the writer has used to make the story content understanding
- Recognize some authors by the style of their illustrations, their topics, or the characters they use
- Have some favorite writers or illustrators
- Have opinions about texts and state the basis for opinions
- Notice how texts are different from each other (fiction vs. nonfiction)
- Check the information in the text against own experiences
- Compare different versions of the same story, rhyme or traditional tale
- Use specific vocabulary to talk about text: author, illustrator, cover, wordless picture book, information book, picture book, character, problem
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