V: Solving Words-I use word-solving strategies, background knowledge, graphics, text context, and readers’ tools to solve words.
V: Solving Words-I derive the meaning of words that reflect regional or historical dialects as well as words from languages other than English.
Predicting
V: Solving Words-I support my predictions with evidence from the text.
V: Solving Words-I change my predictions as new information is gathered.
V: Solving Words-I use the characteristics of the genre to make predictions about the text.
Monitoring and Correcting
V: Solving Words-I continue to monitor accuracy and understanding, self-correcting when errors take away from the meaning.
V: Making Connections-I connect and compare texts within a across genres
V: Making Connections-Specify the nature of connections.
V: Searching for and Using Information: I use a full range of readers’ tools to search for information.
V: Searching for and Using Information:I search for information relating to unfamiliar concepts and ideas in a single chapter or section.
V: Synthesizing- I acquire new perspectives and content about diverse cultures, times, and places.
V: Synthesizing-I think about the issues in the text and ask, “How does this affect my life?”
V: Summarizing-When summarizing, I am very selective as to include the most important information or ideas or facts.
V: Summarizing-I can construct a summary that is concise and reflect the important and overarching ideas and information in texts.
V: Inferring- In texts with multiple complex characters, infer traits, motivations and changes through examining how the writer describe them, what they do, say, think and what other characters say about them.
V: Inferring-I can infer the meaning of certain symbols, events, characters that the writer is using to enhance the meaning. 
V: Maintaining Fluency- I practice reading aloud with expression or dramatic performance.
V: Maintaining Fluency-Demonstrate appropriate stress on words, pausing and phrasing, intonation, and use of punctuation while reading in a way that reflects understanding.
V: Analyzing- I am beginning to understand and recognize satire and its purposes and characteristics.
V: Analyzing-I notice aspects of genres
V: Analyzing- I notice and reflect on a writer’s use of idiom.
V: Analyzing-I notice and understand a writer’s use of language to convey irony or to satirize a person or event (providing examples).
V: Adjusting-I change the style and pace of my reading to reflect the purpose.
V: Adjusting-I change the purpose and aspects of processing to reflect understanding of genre.
V: Critiquing-I can talk about whether the social issues and different cultural groups are accurately represented in the text.
V: Critiquing-I can critique a text as an example of a genre.