To obtain more information about comprehension strategies, visit Comprehension Instruction: What Makes Sense Now, What Might Make Sense Soon or Reading Comprehension Strategies. You will be using a combination of comprehension strategies and interactive writing activities in this lesson.

It is sometimes better not to do this, especially if you are going to ask students to make predictions. You will also want to decide whether you are going to show the illustrations to students as you read. For more background about the author and the book, you may wish to refer to the author's description of the book on .īefore the lesson, you should practice reading the book aloud with fluency and expression.

This story is the semiautobiographical account of a young girl's struggle to learn to read. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.ġ1. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).Ħ. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.

Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions (e.g., philosophical, ethical, aesthetic) of human experience.ģ. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.Ģ. Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world to acquire new information to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace and for personal fulfillment.

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