Georgia 12.P.EICC.3.a

ELA12th GradeComprehension Strategies

The Standard

Establish a purpose and set goals for reading, monitor comprehension, and adjust as needed. (I)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Engagement & Intention for Comprehension & Composition

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Before reading, students name what they need to learn, notice, or evaluate. As they read, they check whether the text makes sense and change approaches when needed.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can set a focused goal that fits the text and task. They can identify where understanding failed, choose a useful strategy, and explain how it clarified the text.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat finishing the text or earning a grade as a reading goal. They may keep reading when meaning breaks down instead of pausing. Some rely only on rereading and do not try context clues, summarizing, questioning, or outside sources.
How to Assess It: Give students a challenging 500-word editorial. Ask them to record their reading goal, one point of confusion, the strategy they tried, and whether it worked.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed article and three colored sticky notes to mark their goal, a confusion point, and the strategy they used.
Ask students to write: "What is your reading goal, where did understanding falter, and what change helped you recover meaning?"
Run a strategy card challenge where groups draw "reread," "summarize," or "check context" and apply it to a difficult paragraph.
Compare how students read a lease, college syllabus, and news report, then have them set a different goal for each.

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