ELAR 5.6

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to:

• (1) establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts;
  • (A) generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;
  • (B) make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
  • (C) create mental images to deepen understanding;
  • (D) make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
  • (E) make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;
  • (F) evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
  • (G) synthesize information to create new understanding; and
  • (H) monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.