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Colorado Model Content Standards: Reading Level 5
1 Students read and understand a variety of materials.
1.a Compare and contrast different texts with similar themes or ideas.
1.b Summarize fiction and nonfiction (for example, tall tales, historical fiction, adventure, procedural text, and informational text). ES
1.c Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction and nonfiction. ES
1.d Infer using contextual clues. ES
1.e Identify sequential order in fiction and nonfiction. ES
1.f Locate and recall information in text with different structures (for example, cause and effect, enumeration, and time order). ES
1.g Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues. ES
4 Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing.
4.a Determine author’s purpose. ES
4.b Use reading to define and solve problems and answer questions.
4.c Differentiate fact from opinion. ES
4.d Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre. ES
4.e Recognize the text’s main idea.
5 Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, references, and technological sources.
5.a Use organizational features of printed text (for example, page numbering, alphabetizing, glossaries, chapter heading, changes in print, table of contents, indexes, captions) to locate information. ES
5.b Use organizational features of electronic information (for example, keyword searches, and icons) and library databases to locate information. ES
5.c Summarize and organize information about a topic in a variety of ways (for example, graphic organizer, Venn diagram, outline, timeline) from references, technical sources, and media. ES
5.d Select information to support ideas and justify the selection.
5.e Locate others’ ideas, images, or information in a bibliography, works cited page, or text features (for example, quotations, italics, parentheses, and footnotes).
5.f Select appropriate definitions from the dictionary, glossaries, and other sources. ES
5.g Give credit for borrowed information by listing sources.
6 Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
6.a Read and respond to a variety of literature (for example, novels, poetry, short stories, nonfiction and plays) that represents perspectives from places, people, and events that are familiar and unfamiliar.
6.b Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, action/plot/events, resolution/solution, theme and sequence in literature. ES
6.c Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology (for example, foreshadowing and figurative language) to understand text. ES
6.d Read and respond to literature as a way to explore the similarities and differences among stories and the ways in which those stories reflect the ethnic background of the author and the culture in which they were written.ES
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