C2. Comprehension Strategies
Specific Expectations
Prereading: Activating Prior Knowledge
C2.1
identify and explain prior knowledge from various sources, including personal experiences, that they can use to make connections and understand new texts
Prereading: Identifying the Purpose for Reading, Listening, and Viewing
C2.2
identify a variety of purposes for engaging with texts, and select texts from diverse creators that are suitable for the purposes
Monitoring of Understanding: Making and Confirming Predictions
C2.3
make predictions using background knowledge, text features, and evidence from the text, and pose questions to check whether their predictions were correct
Monitoring of Understanding: Ongoing Comprehension Check
C2.4
use strategies such as adjusting reading rate, visualizing, reading ahead, asking questions, and consulting references and other texts or sources of information, to monitor and confirm their understanding of various texts
Monitoring of Understanding: Making Connections
C2.5
describe how the ideas expressed in texts connect to their knowledges and lived experiences, the ideas in other texts, and the world around them
Summarizing: Identifying Relevant Information and Drawing Conclusions
C2.6
summarize the main idea of a text and the supporting details in sequence, and draw a well-supported conclusion
Reflecting on Learning
C2.7
explain how strategies such as visualizing, making predictions, summarizing, and connecting to their experiences have helped them comprehend various texts