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.5.6
To deepen comprehension of a text, students must progress from simply identifying the words in a piece of writing to understanding the ideas those words and phrases represent. Students need to make inferences, draw conclusions, and build 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. Students also need to know how to use strategies to address and overcome specific challenges they have with understanding the text. For example, students at this grade must use background knowledge to create associations and build context when reading about an experience they have not experienced themselves.
