High School Team 1

Targeted Skills and Knowledge

Lower-level skills:

Character literacy: Identify character components, configurations; write characters regularly following proper stroke order.

Word literacy: Use lexical compounding strategies to form new words, infer the meaning of unknown compound words.

Syntactic awareness: Parse a sentence into meaningful chunks; build automaticity in sentence comprehension; use syntactic knowledge to infer unknown words; identify parts of speech based on lexical and syntactic use.

Higher-level skills:

Pre-reading: Use text title and illustrations to predict content, skim and scan the text for literal information, activate prior knowledge including knowledge about cultural background.

During-reading: Identify main ideas, classify supporting details, answer inferential questions as an active reader.

Post-reading: Summarize main viewpoints and make inferences about author’s point of view.

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