Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Strategies to comprehend explicit and implicit text meaning.
- Inference skills.
- Methods to identify the theme and purpose of a text.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Making inferences about the theme and purpose of a text by analyzing a text's explicit and implicit meanings.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Text often has an explicitly stated meaning and an implied meaning.
- They can combine their explicit and implicit understanding to infer the theme and the author's purpose for writing the text.
Vocabulary
- Analyze
- Explicit
- Implicit
- Inferences
- Theme
- Author's purpose
