Essentials for Comprehension

The following are skills and strategies proficient readers and writers use:

• Synthesize in order to express the key themes and order of events in a text.

• Determine key ideas that underlie meaning in a given text.

• Infer including drawing conclusions, extending the text meaning and predicting.

• Ask questions to help them understand text.

• Understand how narrative, poetic and expository texts are structured differently and have different text features.

• Identify potential obstacles to comprehension in expository text.

• Identify narrative elements such as character, setting, conflict, sequence of events and resolution.

• Use the responses of others to understand text more deeply.

• Use oral, written, artistic, and dramatic means to share their responses to text with others.