What Does A Kindergartener/First Grader Look Like While Applying Strategies?
Making Connections/Prior Knowledge Uses background knowledge to enhance comprehension and interpretation. Makes text-to- text and text-to-self connections; uses knowledge of familiar authors to make predictions Questioning Asks questions to enhance meaning; can easily answer questions; beginning awareness of different types of questions Visualizing/Sensory Imagery Describes own sensory images; images can be elaborated from the literal text or existing picture; demonstrated using any modality or media Determining Importance Identifies words, characters, and/or events as more important to overall meaning; makes some attempt to explain reasoning Monitoring Comprehension Identifies location and type of difficulty and articulates the need to solve the problem Inferring Draws conclusions and makes predictions using examples from the text Retelling Retells elements of the text in logical sequence; may include some extension to overall theme, message, background knowledge |