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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

Task students with working in pairs to read a text and share the new information they learn about a topic. Students should share background knowledge they may have about the topic and share changes in their thinking and new ideas that are created based on the text.

Further Explanation

This assessment example requires students to demonstrate their understanding of the key ideas and details from a text, apply knowledge gained from the text to form a new idea that is not explicitly stated in the source text, and orally explain their thoughts and ideas to a peer. Through discussion, students can help one another to better understand information they have read in order to develop new understanding.

Once students have figured out the key ideas in a text, they can combine details and parts of a text, or even multiple texts, to form a new coherent and unified idea not explicitly stated. When students synthesize information from a text, they can apply the knowledge gained from it to their lives and the world around them. For example, students who understand several viewpoints presented on an issue will have the ability to look at the issue in different ways and be better able to consider solutions.