• Use a variety of skills to comprehend
• Able to read to find specific information
• Summarize
• Take notes
• Predict outcomes
• Compare and contrast elements in a single selection or several selections
• Recognize basic story elements of plot, setting, mood, theme, characters, conflict resolution, and climax
• Finding avoidance in a story to support their opinions

Literary Skills

• characterization
• author's point of view
• main ideas
• figurative language
• use of propaganda
• writing styles

(Adapted from Skills for Success for your fifth grader)