Discrete Skills:

Stop when you get to an unknown word

Give the gist of a word

Use immediate context to give an accurate definition of a word

Take information from multiple pages or even sections into account

Use text and text features

Explain or describe the terms

Offers a brief explanation in her own words

Support understanding with details from the text

Provide a definition from the text

Provide multiple details

Discrete Skills:

- Visualizing with comparisons

-Inferring

-Students can do one or the other and this still shows signs of a strong comprehension

-Identify multiple similarities/differences

-Being able to categorize

-Organize and place in correct categories

-Build on various things that they can now compare/contrast

-Understanding a single key skill when telling differences/similarities between each item

-Summarize with explanations

Synthesizing and Inferring to Determine the Main Idea(s) of a Whole Book

-Gathering more information to have two Main Ideas

-Three Main Ideas in one statement ( more complex)

-One overall arching idea with sub ideas.

-Analyzing Authors Craft

-readers are able to distinguish information that is essential

-explain how key details support the main idea

-recalling details from different parts of the texts

-explaining real-world connections from the text

-identifies key details from across a text