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COMPREHENSION STANDARDS
SESSION 1 | Grades K-12 | Handout
Advance beyond retelling/summarizing in literature
Build anchor charts
Recognize & recall text details per story element
Retell the story in order
Introduce Set-up, Mix-up, Fix-up and provide writing templates for primary students.
Rising action builds tension, making the problem bigger, harder, or more impossible to solve.
Connect the individual story elements to their placements within the Story Structure.
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Summarize the most important details in order
Infer a character’s traits
Clarify character description from character development.
Visualize a character’s development and evolution through a story.
Track a character from beginning to end to infer consistent traits.
Clarify character feelings versus character traits.
Provide synonyms and example to learn each trait term—Template.
Support a character trait with textual evidence on a Character Web.
Identify themes
Infer the author’s message through the changing of the character.
Identify significant choices or pivotal moments in a character’s life.
Define a “lesson.”
Introduce 3 types of lessons.
