Uses a variety of strategies and skills to comprehend and interpret complex literature
Using a variety of strategies and research-based skills to comprehend and interpret literary text is an essential skill that a high school student must develop. Opportunities to develop these skills may be offered most frequently in the English/Language Arts classroom but may be reinforced in other content areas using fiction that supports the content being learned. Skills and strategies include the following:
- Monitoring and adjusting as needed to make clarifications
- Generating questions when reading and in small and large group settings
- Making predictions and drawing inferences
- Determining importance
- Summarizing
- Visualizing by depicting key events and characters in non-text representations
- Evaluating the text
- Synthesizing literary materials