• I can identify and note at least 2 Notice & Note strategies per chapter or at least 4 think alouds
  per chapter.

• I can explain how and/or why my evidence
  supports my answer.

• I can use signal words to extend my thinking and connect my ideas.

• I can support my judgments with facts and/or opinions from the text.

• I can identify the theme of the text and explain it with evidence from the text.

• I can identify the author’s viewpoint /message and explain with examples.

• I can use text evidence to explain how and why a character responds to challenges in the story.

• I can describe how the characters interact.

• I can compare the characters’ different points of view, feelings, and motives with examples from the text.

• I can use text evidence to explain a character’s role in the plot or theme.

• I can explain how the setting influences the characters, the tone/mood, and the plot of a story

• I can identify the point of view in which the story is told. 

• I can explain how the narrator’s point of view influences the reader and how events are described.

• I can identify examples of literary devices such as similes, metaphors, foreshadowing, flashbacks, and imagery 

• I can infer meaning from figurative language in the text.

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