LLC8. Comprehension of Text

Demonstrates response to face and voice interactions from others (e.g., moves head and follows gaze).

Shows interest in stories read out loud (e.g., focused attention, cooing, babbling).

Points to or gestures toward characters during reading.

Demonstrates understanding (e.g., focused attention), when stories and texts are read or told.

Communicates (verbally or nonverbally) about characters and events during reading or storytelling.

Relates objects in stories or texts to objects in the real world.

Asks and answers questions during reading or storytelling.

Acts out, draws, or describes parts of a story or text.

Identifies and describes basic information from the text of a print material (e.g., characters, objects, and events).

Retells important information from a story or text.

Tells simple stories and experiences from their own life.

Uses vocabulary related to key concepts and central themes from a story or text.

Predicts what will happen next in a story using language or drawings.

Retells a story or events from text using a variety of media, materials, and props (e.g., acts out the story using dress-up).

Describes conflict and conflict resolution themes from a story or text (e.g., "The rabbit got away from the farmer").

With guidance and support, read and monitor understanding of grade-level text, self-correcting as needed, using strategies including, but not limited to, decoding, asking questions and making connections.

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text, with prompting and support.

Identify the topic of a text, with prompting and support.

Identify characters and settings in a literary text, with prompting and support.

Recognize the difference between literary and informational text, through listening or reading.

Correctly order beginning, middle and end of a story, with support and guidance.