Update of the Maryland Learning Outcomes Maryland School Performance Assessment Program Baltimore County Public Schools Grade Level Designations
	READING Grade 3     Shaded area denotes the indicators assessed at GR 3 level.

2.	Outcome: Students will demonstrate their ability to read for information by examining, constructing, and extending meaning from articles, editorials, content texts, and other expository materials related to the content areas.

Students are able to do everything required at earlier grades, use text support, and read for:  1. Global Understanding when they: . Grade Assessed   1   2  1. Summarize the text.     x 2. Determine the author's purpose.      3. State a purpose for reading.   x   4 Recall major points in text.,   x    2.  Developing Interpretation when they:  1. Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs.     x  2. Compare and contrast information in different texts.      3. Use common text features, including headings, key words, illustrations, maps, charts, and captions to gain meaning from text.      4. Reorganize information from the text into different forms (charts, drawings, or graphic organizers). .   x  5.  Distinguish between cause and effect and fact and opinion.  .   x  3.  Personal Response when they: 1. Relate prior knowledge and experience to literal and inferential information found in text. (inference)     2.  Relate and identify central ideas in nonfictional works to prior experience or the experience of others.     x  4.  Critical Response when they:  1. Evaluate common text features. .   x