Update of the Maryland Learning Outcomes Maryland School Performance Assessment Program Baltimore County Public Schools Grade Level Designations
	READING Grade 8     Shaded area denotes the indicators assessed at GR 8 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   6   7  1. Summarize text in a manner that reflects the main ideas, significant details, and its underlying meaning.   x    2.  Determine the author's purpose.     x  2.  Developing Interpretation when they:  1. Compare and contrast information from different articles or procedures on the same topic.   x    2. Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and experience.     x  3.  Personal Response when they: 1. Connect and clarify main ideas and concepts and identify their relationship to other sources, related topics, or prior experience.   x   x 2.  Explain the usefulness of text.   x   x  4.  Critical Response when they:  1. Recognize instances of propaganda and persuasive techniques.     x  2. Analyze the structure and features of functional workplace documents, including format, graphics, sequence, and headers and how authors use these features to achieve their purposes and to make information accessible and useable.   x   3.  Identify and trace the development of an author's argument, viewpoint, or perspective in text.      4. Evaluate the usefulness, clarity, and internal consistency of the text's organizational structure.     x  5. Assess the adequacy, accuracy, and appropriateness of an author's details to support claims and assertions, noting instances of bias and stereotyping.      6. Evaluate text features to gain meaning.   x