Print:
Informational:
Reading/ELA:
Standard 2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text
Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate informational text.
Topic
A. Comprehension of Informational Text
Indicator
- 1. Develop comprehension skills by reading a variety of self-selected and assigned informational texts
Objectives
- Read and recognize nonfiction materials to gain information and content knowledge
- Textbooks
- Trade books
- Grade-appropriate reference materials
- Newspapers
- Articles
- Magazines
- Questionnaires/interviews
- Multimedia resources
- Read and identify functional documents
- Sets of directions
- Science investigations
- Posters
- Flyers
- Forms
- Invitations
- Menus
- Maps
- Recipes
- Rules
- Classroom schedules
- Surveys
- Select and read personal interest materials, such as brochures, books, magazines, and web sites
Indicator
- 2. Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts
Objectives
- Use print features
- Large bold print
- Font size/type
- Italics
- Colored print
- Headings/subheadings and chapter titles
- Labels
- Captions
- Numbered steps
- Use graphic aids
- Illustrations
- Pictures
- Photographs
- Drawings
- Maps
- Graphs
- Charts/tables
- Diagrams
- Materials list
- Use informational aids
- Materials lists
- Timelines
- Captions
- Glossed words
- Labels
- Numbered steps
- Use organizational aids when reading
- Title
- Table of contents
- Numbered steps
- Glossary
- Headings
- Transition words
Indicator
- 3. Develop knowledge of organizational structure of informational text to understand what is read
Objectives
- Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction text
- Recognize words that signal the structure of informational text
- Recognize sequential and chronological order
- Recognize cause/effect relationships
- Recognize similarities and differences
- Recognize description
- Recognize and use main idea and supporting details
Indicator
- 4. Determine important ideas and messages in informational texts
Objectives
- Identify the author's/text's purpose
- Identify main ideas/messages
- Identify information not related to the main idea
- Draw conclusions and generalizations from text to form new understanding
- Distinguish between a fact and an opinion
- Identify how someone might use the text
- Summarize the text or a portion of the text
- Identify prior knowledge that clarifies the main idea of the text
Indicator
- 5. Identify and explain the author's
Objectives
- Identify words and phrases with a specific effect on meaning (similes, metaphors)
- Recognize specific words and punctuation that create tone
- Recognize repetition of words
Indicator
- 6. Read critically to evaluate informational text
Objectives
- State whether the text fulfills the reading purpose
- Explain what the author could have done to make the text easier to understand
- Explain whether the author's ideas are clear
- Identify words that affect the reader's feelings
Indicators/objectives that include assessment limits are assessed on MSA *New Standards identifies the need for students to process 1 million words per year to maintain academic progress.
11/15/07
