Notes

Focus Comprehension Skill : IDENTIFYING DETAIL - finding information about events, objects, animals, or people. This skill involves finding small pieces of information in a text and looking for words that describe something. This recognition is an essential component of reading comprehension, and the details enable them to think in depth about the range of who, what, where, when, why, and how questions.
Focus Comprehension Skill : MAIN IDEA - tells what a paragraph, page or text is about. They are supported by details. Main ideas are usually found in the first or last sentence of a paragraph, page, or text. The ability to extract the main idea, first of each paragraph of a text, and then of a whole text, underlies comprehension. In this series the main ideas of each paragraph are stated either at the beginning of the end of every paragraph, as topic sentences.
Focus Comprehension Skill - SEQUENCING - this is putting events into order in which they happen and instructions in the order in which they are to be carried out. This is a crucial life skill as well as being a major component of comprehension.
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