Content Standard: D. Informational Texts
Students will apply reading, listening, and viewing strategies to informational texts across all areas of curriculum.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Seek appropriate assistance when attempting to comprehend challenging text.	Students will: use the glossary ask a peer or teacher seek additional resources			.	.	.
2. Identify useful information organizing strategies.	Students will use strategies to organize information including: outlines graphic organizers note taking time line KWL chart			.	.	.
3. Identify both the author's purpose and the author's point of view when reading expository information.	Students will identify author's purpose and point of view as one of the following: persuade inform entertain			.	.	.
4. Identify different ways in which informational texts are organized.	Students will be able to identify and use table of contents glossary index			.	.	.
5. Produce and support generalizations acquired from informational text.	Students will paraphrase information read and use facts from the text to support it.			.	.	.
7. Identify common technical terms used in informational texts.	.			.	.	.
8. Use the various parts of a text (index, table of contents, glossary) to locate specific information.	.			.	.	.