Language for Information and Understanding ELA
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Adult Goal 2: Learners will read and construct meaning from text using a variety of materials related to own purposes. READING

OBJECTIVES EXAMPLES
Objective A: Learners will develop reading comprehension strategies.
  • Relate prior knowledge and experiences to new information.
  • Draw references from beginning and ending segments.
  • Answer questions formulated during pre-reading such as prediction or confirmation.
  • Accurately assesses own knowledge, skills, and abilities.
  • Read to learn in order to expand knowledge base.
  • Recall important details and concepts from text.
  • Determine the author's purpose and point of view such as to entertain, inform, or persuade.
  • Comprehend information presented in charts, tables, graphs, and maps.
Objective B: Learners will use a variety of strategies, when needed, to identify unfamiliar words and to construct meaning.
  • Use sight vocabulary including survival words.
  • Use phonic, syntactic and semantic cues to decode unfamiliar words.
  • Recognize root words.
  • Use contextual clues and word clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
  • Determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word using definition clues, example clues, synonym clues, and antonym clues.
  • Use common affixes to read unfamiliar words.

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