cc_English Language Arts_Grade 4_Apply a variety of thinking skills to gain meaning from texts

examples include self-monitoring, reflecting, goal setting

Text and texts are generic terms referring all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:

• Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.
• Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.
• Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.
• Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.
• Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements).