-remember and apply relevant information

-visualize: creating mental images

-compare similarities

-contrast differences

-multiple similarities

-multiple differences

-identify categories

-categorize comparisons

-organizes

-comparing more than two

-multiple texts

-They are able to identify concrete information from a section

-Use multiple supporting details using a specific number mentioned in text

-They are using what they read in the texts to infer about the whole chapter

-They can explain how the facts connect to the main idea

-They are able to think more complex and make connections back to what they have already read

• Previewing the book and the pages

• Sitting in the book

• Determining relevant information

• Reading relevant information

• Matching information to key details and main idea

• Determine Main Idea of a text

• Grouping information together

• Creating a mental picture

• Comparing and contrasting key details and topics within the main idea of a book

• Be able to summarize succinctly in some way that the reader has understood what the passage or book was about

• Relate it to others in their own words and to build knowledge of a topic

Discrete Skills:

-Self-monitor to stop and recognize unknown words

-Visualizes word

-Knows the gist of a word

-Use immediate context to give a definition

-Use text features

-Be able to explain or describe the terms

-Define accurately using text and picture clues

-Explains in own words

-Uses examples from the text to support an explanation

-Explains using many details

-Explains the importance and why it is important.

-Use prior knowledge

-Determine the correct meaning, in the context, of multi-meaning words

-Uses morphology to analyze words

-Use outside resources

Discrete Skills:

• name a topic

• name sub-topics

• taking most of the book into account, making this a strong main idea statement.

• state the main idea in original language

• Infer the main idea in original language

• consider the whole book, synthesizing most of it's information - putting together two main things

• captures three main ideas, showing complexity of the main idea and paying attention to the parts of the book

• one main overarching idea about the whole book and then some sub-ideas that are related.

• the two sub-ideas show a cause-and-effect relationship, echoing the structure of the text.

• analyze an author's craft, authority, or bias

• compare and contrast main ideas from different books on the same topic

• Determine what ideas are related.

• Determine the Main Idea.

• Borrows language from title and text below it.

• Stopped and jotted main idea- Taking Notes

• Being curious and seeking out answers from within the text.

• Uses explicitly stated information from the sentences.

• Uses completely original language and reveals complexity of the idea being presented.

• Takes everything they learned from pictures and text to show multiple ways to communicate the main idea.