Demonstrate the behaviours of an effective, active reader including preparing to read by previewing, asking questions, setting purpose, considering what is known and what needs to be known, adjusting rate to specific purpose, making connections, and making inferences based on text and prior knowledge, re-reading, summarizing, and paraphrasing.

Locate and analyze the elements of setting, characterization, and plot to construct understanding of how characters influence the progression and resolution of the plot.

Analyze the author's form, technique, and use of language.

Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the purpose, structure, and elements of non-fiction.

Analyze and evaluate the ideas presented in texts.

Compare values expressed in texts through author and through characters to own values.

Draw and support conclusions and opinions about author's message, values, point of view, and craft.

Recognize how text contributed to own understanding of self, roles in society, and relationships with others.

Respond critically to text ideas and author's craft by using textual evidence to support interpretations.

Identify and analyze techniques and elements such as figurative language and rhetorical and stylistic features of texts.

Consider more complex and alternative interpretations.

Select, independently, texts which address learning needs and interests.

Read independently for self-initiated and assigned purposes.