When reading fictional texts students will be asking and answering questions, recounting stories and summarizing information, while also describing character traits, feelings, and motivations to explain the order of events in a ficitional text. Students will also compare and contrast story elements across a series and determine their own point of view using information from a text.
Students reading non-ficiton texts will develop their understanding of main idea and key details to summarize a text and also compare and contrast main idea and key details between similiar information. Students will also determine the different types of non-ficiton texts, along with describing the text structure. Students will use text features and search tools to expand their knowledge on a topic.
Students will develop their foundational reading skills by developing their reading vocabulary by using specific literary terms to discuss topics and concepts. Students will also continue to practice decoding words, identifying and understanding word parts. Students will also continue to enhance their reading stamina and fluency.