Reading comprehension:
Essential Concepts & Vocabulary:
- comprehension, comprehension strategies (activate prior knowledge, predicting, inferring, making connections, questioning, summarizing, visualizing,) fiction, story elements (setting, character, problem/solution), plot/theme, author's lesson/moral, character traits, context clues, literal versus non literal language, main idea (stated/unstated), text features (titles, headings, photographs, captions, diagrams, labels, charts/graphs/maps, types of print-bold/italics, glossary, index), text structures (cause/effect, compare/contrast, description, problem/solution, sequence),