Reading and Viewing
Outcomes:
GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts
4.1 Select, independently, texts appropriate to their interests and learning needs
4.2 Read widely and experience a variety of children’s literature with an emphasis in genre and authors
4.3 Use pictures and illustrations, word structures, and text features (e.g., table of contents, headings and subheadings, glossaries, indices, structures of narrative and different types of expository texts, key ideas, margin notes) to locate topics and obtain or verify their understanding of information
4.4 Use and integrate the pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and graphophonic cueing systems (including context clues; word order; structural analysis to identify roots, prefixes, and suffixes) and a variety of strategies to construct meaning; use a dictionary to determine word meaning in context
4.5 Describe and discuss their own processes and strategies in reading and viewing
GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
5.1 Answer with decreasing assistance, their own questions and those of others by selecting relevant information from a variety of texts:
GCO 6: Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts
6.1 Describe, share, and discuss their personal reactions to a range of texts across genres, topics, and subjects
6.2 Support their opinions about texts and features of types of texts
GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form, and genre
7.1 Use their background knowledge to question and analyze information presented in print and visual texts
7.2 Recognize how conventions and characteristics of different types of print and media texts help them understand what they read and view
7.3 Respond critically to texts:
GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts
4.1 Select, independently, texts appropriate to their interests and learning needs
4.2 Read widely and experience a variety of children’s literature with an emphasis in genre and authors
4.3 Use pictures and illustrations, word structures, and text features (e.g., table of contents, headings and subheadings, glossaries, indices, structures of narrative and different types of expository texts, key ideas, margin notes) to locate topics and obtain or verify their understanding of information
4.4 Use and integrate the pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and graphophonic cueing systems (including context clues; word order; structural analysis to identify roots, prefixes, and suffixes) and a variety of strategies to construct meaning; use a dictionary to determine word meaning in context
4.5 Describe and discuss their own processes and strategies in reading and viewing
GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
5.1 Answer with decreasing assistance, their own questions and those of others by selecting relevant information from a variety of texts:
- respond to personal, group, and instructional needs for information through accessing a variety of texts
- demonstrate an understanding of how classification systems and basic reference materials are
- used to facilitate research use a range of reference texts and a database or an electronic search to aid in the selection of texts
- increase their abilities to access and assess information in response to their own and others questions
GCO 6: Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts
6.1 Describe, share, and discuss their personal reactions to a range of texts across genres, topics, and subjects
6.2 Support their opinions about texts and features of types of texts
GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form, and genre
7.1 Use their background knowledge to question and analyze information presented in print and visual texts
7.2 Recognize how conventions and characteristics of different types of print and media texts help them understand what they read and view
7.3 Respond critically to texts:
- applying strategies to analyze a text
- demonstrating growing awareness that all texts reflect a purpose and a point of view
- identifying instances where language is being used to manipulate, persuade, or control them
- identifying instances of opinion, prejudice, bias, and stereotyping