A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for ELA.3.6
To comprehend a text, students must progress over time from simply identifying the words in a piece of writing to understanding the ideas those words and phrases represent. Students should deepen their comprehension by making inferences, drawing conclusions, and building associations to construct meaning from the text. Once students reach this level of understanding, they can engage with and form responses to these ideas.
As students become more proficient readers, the texts they engage with and draw meaning from should become more complex in structure, language, and/or content. Within and across grade levels, students are expected to be exposed to challenging texts that allow them the opportunity to practice and master new skills.
As students engage with texts of increasing complexity, they must understand how to assess their own comprehension and, if necessary, how to apply strategies to address and overcome specific challenges they have understanding the text. At this grade level, students might engage in metacognitive thinking by annotating a text while reading so they can record questions they have as they read and confirm or seek out the answers to those questions once they have completed reading.
