Establish purpose for reading
Generate questions about text (before, during and after reading)
Make and correct/confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures of text
Create mental images
Make connections (text to self, text to text, text to world)
Make inferences
Key ideas and details
Synthesize information
Monitor comprehension and make adjustments
Determine theme using text evidence
Character traits (internal and external)
Plot/main events
introduction, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution/conclusion
Describe the importance of setting
Explain visual patterns and structures in poems
Elements of drama
characters, dialogue, setting
Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text
Central idea (main idea)
Chronological order (sequence of events)
Cause and effect
Fact and opinion
Author's Purpose
descriptive, literal, and figurative language
imagery
first or third person text
repetition