Comprehension Strategies: Cause and Effect

Standards

SOL 2.9

The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts.
a) Preview the selection using text features.
b) Make and confirm predictions about the main idea.
c) Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.
d) Set purpose for reading.
e) Ask and answer questions about what is read.
f) Locate information to answer questions.
g) Identify the main idea.
h) Read and reread familiar passages with fluency, accuracy, and meaningful expression.

UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARD
(Teacher Notes)
� The intent of this standard is that students will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts across the curriculum, including age-appropriate materials that reflect the Virginia Standards of Learning in English, history and social science, science, and mathematics.
� Students will continue to learn to relate their prior knowledge to the topic of the text and use this knowledge, along with information from the text, to make and confirm predictions.
� Students will also begin to learn the skills of summarizing and skimming to locate specific information in nonfiction text.
� Students will continue to respond in writing to what is read.
� The main idea is the most important idea from the paragraph or story.
� Common graphic organizers include:
 Venn diagram;
 cause and effect;
 sequencing;
 compare and contrast; and
 cycle.
� Fluency develops as students have many opportunities to practice reading at their independent reading level.