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Grade Essential Concepts
Fluency
Modeling through oral
reading
Intonation and rhythm
Vocabulary Developed
Through Text
Context clues
Dictionary/glossary/thesa
urus
Applying Pre-Reading
Strategies
Preview
Predict
Set a purpose
ccess prior !nowledge
Applying Reading Strategies
In"er
#isuali$e
%uestion text
Paraphrase/summari$e
Applying Post-Reading
Strategies
&e'ect
Draw conclusions
Identi"y and explain main
idea ( supporting details
%uestions to clari"y
Paraphrase/summari$e
Making onnections
)ext to text
)ext to sel"
)ext to world
!iterary Techni"ues
*argon
Dialect
Sym+olism
Slang
Previously studied
techni,ues
!iterary #le$ents
Mood/)one
)heme
Point o" view
-oreshadowing
Character analysis
-lash+ac!
Text Structures
&elia+le sources
uthor.s
purpose/viewpoint
Compare and contrast
Pro+lem solving
%nderstanding Directions
&ead and "ollow multi/step
directions to complete
complex tas!
Setting se,uential order