The action or capability of understanding texts that provide information.
We can help our readers develop their reading comprehension by building their language comprehension, guiding them to be strategic readers by providing them with tools and strategies they can use to understand reading, and matching them to texts that support their growth as readers.
Activate students' prior knowledge around a topic by allowing them to talk of what they already know to gauge if they need help understanding the text.
Providing images and videos to help students understand what they informational text is referring to.
Standard: 3.RI.1 - Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
The students will be given a text in which they must go back and highlight in yellow statements that are facts and highlight in orange statements that are opinions. This focuses on the objective, " students identify key details in an informational text, distinguish between facts and opinions, and support their understanding with evidence from the text. ".