Reading Competency Assurance Documents

High School

Reading Skills, Conventions, & Strategies
Reading Behaviors, Conventions, & Strategies

Reading skills are the basic concepts underlying all types of passages and are necessary to understand all types of reading materials.

• makes, confirms, and revises predictions
• paraphrases important parts of a passage
• formulates opinions in response to a reading passage
• interprets literal and non-literal meanings of words
• interprets concrete and abstract terms in meaningful context
• interprets the meaning of jargon and/or dialect used in a passage
• locates, evaluates, and applies information for a realistic purpose
• applies concepts and terminology to analyze and interpret selections
• scans to find key information
• skims to get the gist of a passage
• formulates questions to guide reading
• reflects on and evaluates what is read
• knows the meanings of common prefixes and suffixes in order to decode unfamiliar words
• interprets how text is connected to real life experiences and/or current events
• justifies critical opinion about text
• selects reading materials from a variety of genres, types, cultural and historical perspectives
• self-monitors, rereads, and self-corrects
• uses text as a model for own writing
• uses picture cues and captions
• uses titles, subtitles, and headings
• uses context clues
• uses graphic organizers
• recognizes high frequency words