Final Discussion Draft. Standards and Assessment Council, Denver, Colorado. Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and for diverse audiences. Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources. Students read and recognize literature as an expression of human experience. Standard 3 Students Read and Understand a Variety of Materials. In order to meet this standard students will use comprehension strategies such as previewing, predicting, inferring, comparing and contrasting, re-reading, summarizing, identifying the author's purpose, determining the main idea, researching new material, and applying knowledge of foreshadowing, metaphor, simile, symbolism, and other figures of speech. make connections between their reading and what they already know by identifying experiences that are common to themselves and to the character, information, and events depicted in the reading material, and identify what they already know and need to know about a topic before reading about it. The strategies are applied in increasingly difficult reading material at each grade level.