Welcome to the second year of ethnic studies |
By the time you leave this class, you should have mastered the following skills:
Nonfiction Reading
Nonfiction Reading
- Use text features like headings, table of contents, graphics, and captions to get set up for what a text will be about.
- Pull out and paraphrase specific facts from a text.
- Identify, define, and use key vocabulary connected to the topic of the text.
- Identify idea structures across sentences and paragraphs: sequence, compare/contrast, cause and effect, main idea and examples, part-whole.
- Infer the main idea of a text or a section or paragraph of text. When all of the facts are together, what do they say? The author is teaching me that…
- Identify supporting details for a main idea.
- Explain how graphic text features work together with text to convey information.