The reading skills that we will be developing this year are:
identifying the main idea and details within texts
determining the author's purpose
identifying cause and effect
classifying and categorizing information and/or ideas
comparing and contrasting ideas and information
drawing conclusions from our reading
determining the difference between fact and opinion
describing using figurative language
identifying different genres of texts
describing the plot of a narrative
identifying the point of view expressed in a text
making predictions
understanding the sequence of events within a text
describing story structure
identifying explicit information in non-fiction texts
summarizing texts
Strategies we will be employing to help us in our reading are:
making connections
asking questions
making inferences
visualizing
determining important information
monitoring comprehension
understanding text structure
We will also be working together to improve on our fluency, phrasing, and decoding in reading.