Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw upon their prior experience, their interaction with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies and their understanding of the textural features.
Of course, this is the way we understand texts. My seven year old children apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate and understand Bad Kitty Takes a Bath. The fact that a standard exists to identify this process is evidence of how educators have to parse their curriculum to demonstrate its educational value.
I know we all have to be able to look at what needs to be taught and what the best way is to teach it. I think it’s important to analyze and make sense of things. But sometimes, don’t you want to say “duh”?
Nice quote about standards :)
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