Reading Skills- The following are skills that we will be working on for the year.  They are important skills that will help make the students deeper thinkers.

Drawing Conclusions/Inference: Using clues in the story to come to your own conclusion about what's happening or why something happened. 
Cause & Effect: The cause tells "why" something happened.  The effect tells "what" happened.

Sequencing: Giving events in the order in which they happened in the story

Summarizing: Retelling the story or parts of the story.  We need to make sure we only include the most important details and keep it short.
Main Idea: Looking for what the story or article is mainly talking about.
Prediction: Using the information to make an educated guess about what might happen.

 

 

 

 

Analyzing: Breaking down a concept or idea into parts and showing relationships among the parts.
   Examples of questions to ask: How can you compare the different parts? 
                                                      What can you point out about _______? 
                                                      How would you explain _______? 
                                                      How is _______ connected to ______?
Evaluating: Make informed judgements about the value of ideas or materials.  Use standards and criteria to support opinions and views.
   Examples of questions to ask: What data was used to evaluate _______?
                                                      How could you verify _____?
                                                      What is your opinion of ______?
                                                      Rank the importance of _____.
Synthesizing: Bringing together parts of knowledge to form a whole and build relationships for new situations.
   Examples of questions to ask: What alternative would you suggest for ______?
                                                      How would you explain the reason _________?
                                                      How would you improve ________?
                                                      What would happen if _______?