6) Literal, critical, inferential, and creative comprehension outcomes
…to achieve these outcomes for the various types of texts they learn a range of comprehending sentences that they use with sentences, paragraphs, and whole texts.
These include:
visualizing, paraphrasing, and contextualizing sentences and asking questions about them
consolidating and summarizing what has been read; backtracking, reading ahead or within and across sentences to link concepts
predicting, anticipating, inferring various types of ideas and feelings
detecting the general theme by scanning or skimming the text, selecting keywords
detecting attitudes and the disposition of the writer in a text.
Students learn to integrate how they use these strategies. They apply them to an increasingly wide range of texts and use them selectively and in a sustained way, according to their purpose and goals at the time.