Scope & Sequence for INSIGHTS: Comprehension Strategies
Grade 1
Unit 1: Picture Details
Develop visual discrimination by
- comparing shapes or pictures to find missing details
- using personal knowledge of details to complete familiar pictures
Unit 2: Picture Sequence
Represent the order of events by
- making a number line to represent logical progression
- relating a number line to a time line
- making a time line to represent daily events
- using a time line to sequence events in a story
- sequencing pictures to visualize a progression of events
Unit 3: Matching Pictures with Phrases
Understand that words and pictures are symbols by
- comparing actual information and objects to their symbols
- establishing the relationship between pictographs and symbols
- interpreting a pictograph that conveys a message
- connecting pictures with words
Unit 4: Titles/Main Ideas
Connect a title to the main idea by
- analyzing a picture for main idea and details
- expressing the main idea as a title
- inventing a title for a story, a song, and a picture
- selecting the title that best fits the content of a story or a picture
Unit 5: Visualizing Description
Visualize details by
- selecting an object or person from a group, based on description
- identifying characteristics of objects in descriptive phrases
- locating sensory descriptive words in sentences
- charting descriptions of objects according to the five senses
- writing descriptive sentences
Unit 6: Comparing and Contrasting
Identify similarities and differences by
- comparing observable characteristics of people, places, things, and events
- identifying seasonal words and seasonal differences
- relating the cyclical nature of the seasons to an analog clock
- using descriptive clues in illustrations and written description to compare seasons
Unit 7: Making Inferences
Make inferences about a story by
- identifying clues in stories that explain what happened and why it happened
- using prior knowledge to interpret clues in the story
- putting together clues during reading
- analyzing a character’s motivations in a story
- adjusting an inference as new clues are found
Unit 8: Using Context Clues to Infer
Use context clues to infer by
- linking clues in the text with personal knowledge to interpret the meaning
- using clue words to generate word associations
- applying knowledge of clues and associated words to complete sentences and picture sequences
- evaluating multiple clues in two or more related sentences
- using the story context to supply the missing clue words
Unit 9: Synonyms and Antonyms
Define synonyms and antonyms by
- identifying pictures/objects that are the same/different
- recognizing words that have similar meanings
- establishing the relatedness of similar objects or words by using a rating scale
- locating synonyms in sentences
- substituting synonyms for words in a sentence
- using word associations to identify synonyms and antonyms
- using context clues to determine synonyms and antonyms for specified words in sentences
Unit 10: Sequence in Stories
Establish a sequence of events by
- making a time line for a sequence of events
- putting pictures showing a sequence of events on a number line
- arranging sentences in sequence
- using prior knowledge about the logical progression of plot to sequence story events
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