EXPLORE/PLAN/ACT Reading
To enhance their skills in each reading-related strand, students who score in the 13–15 score range may benefit from activities that encourage them to do the following:
| Score Range 13–15 |
| Main Ideas and Author's Approach |
- work with peers to create logical statements about the main idea or
purpose of simple paragraphs
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| Supporting Details |
- determine which details in a text are essential to understanding the author's or narrator's intended message
- scan a text in order to locate specific details (e.g., dates, specialized terms, facts)
- identify the author's or narrator's reasons for including specific information in the text
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| Sequential, Comparative, and Cause-Effect Relationships |
- analyze how an author or narrator uses description, dialogue, and action to suggest relationships between characters in written or nonprint sources (e.g., films, ads)
- select phrases or statements from a
literary text that illustrate how a specific character feels toward others in the text
- read portions of a literary text,
predicting how a person's actions or words would likely impact a specific
situation
- use various strategies (e.g.,
questioning, role-playing) to determine plausible cause-effect relationships
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| Meanings of Words |
- examine specific language in a text and propose plausible interpretations based in part on their own viewpoints and experiences
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| Generalizations and Conclusions |
- analyze the reasonableness of generalizations by reviewing
information presented in the text and from other sources
- compose generalizations that include qualifying language (e.g., a few, sometimes) when limited evidence is presented by the author or narrator
- determine what a literary narrative is generally about, organizing the text's information into general statements that are supported by details from the text
- draw reasonable conclusions about people and situations using evidence presented in a text
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