What Does A 4th/5th Grader Look Like While Applying
Strategies?
Making Connections/Prior Knowledge
Explains how background knowledge enriches the
interpretation of the text and begins to make connections beyond life
experience and immediate text
Questioning
Uses questions to challenge the text related to the
author’s purpose, theme, or point of view
Visualizing/Sensory Imagery
Creates and describes multi-sensory images that
extend and enrich the text; and can explain how those images enhance
comprehension
Determining Importance
Identifies at least one key concept, idea, or theme
as important in overall text meaning and clearly explains why
Monitoring Comprehension
Uses more than one strategy to build meaning when
comprehension breaks down; can articulate which strategies are most appropriate
for a given text
Predicting/Inferring
Develops predictions, interpretations, and/or
conclusions about the text that include connections between the text and the
reader’s background knowledge or ideas and beliefs
Retelling/Summarizing/Synthesizing
Stops frequently to reflect on text meaning;
relates to the story or genre in a personal way; can identify key themes; may
articulate how this process has created new meaning upon completion of
text
Strategies?
Making Connections/Prior Knowledge
Explains how background knowledge enriches the
interpretation of the text and begins to make connections beyond life
experience and immediate text
Questioning
Uses questions to challenge the text related to the
author’s purpose, theme, or point of view
Visualizing/Sensory Imagery
Creates and describes multi-sensory images that
extend and enrich the text; and can explain how those images enhance
comprehension
Determining Importance
Identifies at least one key concept, idea, or theme
as important in overall text meaning and clearly explains why
Monitoring Comprehension
Uses more than one strategy to build meaning when
comprehension breaks down; can articulate which strategies are most appropriate
for a given text
Predicting/Inferring
Develops predictions, interpretations, and/or
conclusions about the text that include connections between the text and the
reader’s background knowledge or ideas and beliefs
Retelling/Summarizing/Synthesizing
Stops frequently to reflect on text meaning;
relates to the story or genre in a personal way; can identify key themes; may
articulate how this process has created new meaning upon completion of
text