*Stops at unknown words.

*Gives the gist of a word.

*Uses immediate context to give an accurate definition.

*Uses text and text features to define a word.

*Uses information from multiple pages or sections to understand a new word.

*Explains or describes a word.

*Offers a brief explanation in the reader's own words.

*Analyzes word parts and uses morphology to understand the meaning of a word.

*Uses examples from the text to support an explanation.

*Uses outside resources to learn a new word.

*Explains or describes the word offering many details.

*Points out what it's important to understand this term.

*Analyzes the author's word choice for deeper understanding.

*name the main idea explicitly related to the text

*Synthesize information across portions of text including pictures and words

*determine what details are related

*Borrow language from headings

*uses some language from the text

*stop and jot the main idea

*add in "and many more" to include next subsection

*uses completely original language

*reveals complexity of the idea

*Recall details and connects to prior knowledge.

*Self monitoring while reading.

*List facts and information, practice visualizing.

*Supports main idea with facts.

*Uses multiple details to support the idea

*Shows precision by using specific numbers in the facts.

*Find key details using multiple pages that support the main idea.

*Visualize details and summarize information accross texts.

*Clarify how the facts connect to the overarching idea.

*The idea is complex. Key details support and clearly connect back to it from several parts of a section of a book.

*Summarize facts and information, analyze how the author developed the main idea.

We don't want to settle for gives the gist. Instead, we want to work with students and push them to be able to explain the meaning of the word in their own terms to demonstrate true understanding. Knowing the progression of skills allows me to meet each reader where s/he is and teach exactly what the reader needs next!

Infer Main Idea

*Determine what details are related to the main idea

*Determine multiple main ideas

• Visualize with comparisons

• Compare similarities

• Find contradictions

• Contrast differences

• Find multiple similarities & differences

• Categorize comparisons

• Organizes comparing and contrasting within categories

• Compare and contrast two or more concepts within a text or texts

*Create a strong main idea statement.

*Name topics, identify subtopics, and articulate a simple main idea.

*Show the complexity of the main idea in one statement.

*Compare two main ideas, and provide information.

*Identify one main overarching idea.

*Show complexity using cause-and-effect relationships.

*Compare and contrast main ideas from different books on the same topics.

*Needs to attend to all the information in every part of a text-both the main text and features- and make plans for how to read the page or spread.

2.) Studies the details in a photograph and combines it with other information that was learned in the text. The number of details show a deep understanding.

*Recognizes common features such as photos and illustrations and is ready to study them more closely to visualize, determine important information, and synthesize what's in the feature with what's in the main text.

3.) Demonstrates information learned from the text feature and combines what is learned with the main text.

*Is reading texts with complex features and needs to study them more closely to visualize, determine important information, and synthesize information from the feature with that in the main text.

4.) Considering what extra information with other resources and how that information connects.

*Is reading texts with multiple features. Is ready to analyze an author's intent regarding text features, synthesize the information in multiple features and text, and/or compare and contrast information from across features.

*Connect that information to the main text.

*Comprehend and derive meaning from the feature.