What Does A Second Grader/Third 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
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