Iowa Classrooms
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Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the reading process
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9-12 Uses a variety of strategies to expand understanding of words and text
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To understand this Interval Benchmark, a tenth grade student:
• . Uses contextual clues to define unfamiliar words and phrases   ITED ***
• . Uses text information to make and support inferences   ITED ***
• . Uses text information to draw and support conclusions   ITED ***
• . Uses stated, reworded, or paraphrased text information to derive meaning from a variety of text formats   ITED **
• . Locates relevant information to support understanding   ITED ***
• . Uses knowledge of organizational features (such as sequencing, cause and effect, compare and contrast, fact and opinion, etc.) to aid comprehension of a variety of text formats and genre   ITED **
 
Asterisks indicate how often the benchmark appears on the identified assessment: *(1-2 questions) **(3-5 questions) or *** (more than 5 questions).
 
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Instructional Resources
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.  Supporting Knowledge
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Vocabulary, Information, Skills
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Best Practices, Strategies, Discovery
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General Resources
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.  Curriculum Planning
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Create Grade 10 planning worksheets
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Select supporting knowledge to:
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. . Examine key vocabulary, terms, and phrases unique to the content area that students should know
. . Determine what information student should understand (Declarative Knowledge)
. . Determine what skills student are able to do (Procedural Knowledge)
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Learning requires students to know declarative knowledge (vocabulary and information). Using or applying information (declarative knowledge) results in procedural knowledge, referred to as skills.
 
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Select instructional strategies to:
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. . Examine research-based best practices or links to other web-sites and resources
. . Identify appropriate strategies matched to student needs
. . Discover ongoing compilation of teacher-developed strategies
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Chief Admin., Glenn Pelecky - Dir. of Research and Development, Jan Yoder
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