By the end of Reading, students will be able to:

--Effectively and efficiently understand inferences
-- Distinguish facts from opinions
-- Identify chronological sequences and coherence devices

Reading Level 10 Teaching Objectives:

1. Facilitate students’ implementation of reading skills:
1.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
1.2 Recognize cause and effect relationships
1.3 Recognize the main idea.
1.4 Recognize supporting details.
1.5 Recognize referents.
1.6 Identify inferences.
1.7 Draw conclusions.
1.8 Recognize omitted information.
1.9 Identify rhetorical purposes.
2. Facilitate students’ ability to interpret, evaluate, and discuss what was read:
2.1 Paraphrase complex sentences and ideas.
2.2 Inferring an author’s attitude
2.3 Understanding chronological sequence
2.4 Creating mental maps of texts to organize material and understand texts more deeply.
2.5 Understand references to things outside of a text.
2.6 Analyze and synthesize information different sources.
2.7 Applying information from a text to answer inference-based questions
3. Familiarize students with basic vocabulary knowledge relevant to academic literature:
3.1 Use context clues.
3.2 Improve knowledge of word roots and affixes.