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The following charts provide an overview of behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support as children progress through Levels A through N. Each set of charts shows the progression of behaviors and understandings within one aspect of instruction. The four aspects are Thinking Within the Text, Thinking Beyond the Text, Thinking About the Text, and Letter/Word Work. Thinking Within the Text includes searching for and using information, solving words, monitoring and correcting, maintaining fluency, summarizing, and adjusting. Thinking Beyond the Text includes predicting, making connections, synthesizing, and inferring. Thinking About the Text includes analyzing and critiquing. Letter/Word Work builds letter-sound knowledge, high-frequency word recognition, and word solving skills. LLI carefully supports children in developing increasingly sophisticated behaviors and understandings in each of these four areas as they progress through the books and lessons at each level.
In the Lesson Guide, specific behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support in each lesson are listed on the first page of the lesson under "Goals." Behaviors and understandings appropriate for each level are presented on two pages at the end of each level. The continuua for all the levels in each system appear again at the end of Volume 2 of the Lesson Guide. To create the continuum charts, some behaviors and understandings were compiled within categories. For example, in Letter/Word Work, Compound Words, children read simple compound words at Level E, take apart compound words at Level F, and discuss how the parts of compound words are related to their meaning in Level K. The Lesson Guide provides these details for each lesson and level.
The Continuum of Behaviors to Notice, Teach, and Support Charts
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