Update of the Maryland Learning Outcomes
Maryland School Performance Assessment Program
Baltimore County Public Schools Grade Level Designations

  
     
 

 READING Grade 4
    Shaded area denotes the indicators assessed at GR 4 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:
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Grade Assessed

   5
 1. Summarize text in a manner that reflects the main ideas, significant details, and its underlying meaning.  
 2. Determine the author's purpose.  x
 2.  Developing Interpretation when they:
 1. Use common organizational structures such as comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and chronological order to gain meaning from text. (comparison and contrast)  
 2. Use prior knowledge and ideas presented in texts to make and confirm predictions.  
 3.  Distinguish among facts, supported inferences, and opinions in text.   x
 3.  Personal Response when they:
1. Evaluate new information and hypotheses by testing them against known information and ideas.   x
2.  Compare and contrast information in the text with prior knowledge.  
 3. Evaluate the usefulness of information.  
 4. Distinguish relevant from irrelevant information contained within text and identify possible points of confusion.   x
 4.  Critical Response when they:
 1. Explain how the tone is reflected in the author's style.   x
 2. Evaluate the various functions of language used (to inform or to persuade) to comprehend text.  
 

Revised 7/2001
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