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.

 

 1. Outcome: Students will demonstrate their ability to read for literary experience by examining, constructing, and extending meaning from stories, plays, poems, and other works of fiction.

  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

   1   2
  1. Summarize the story, poem, or play.    
  2. Identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in literary works.   x   x
  3. Extract appropriate and significant information from text, including problems and solutions, major points, and central ideas from text. (central ideas and problem solving)   x  
 2. Developing Interpretation when they:
 1. Distinguish between cause sand effect, fact and opinion. (cause and effect)     x
 2. Explain the connections between illustrations and text and how illustrations support text.   x  
 3. Compare and contrast different versions of the same stories reflecting different cultures.     x
 3. Personal Response when they:
1. Identify basic plots of folk tales, legends, and fables from around the world and connect them to prior experience or experiences of others. (fables)    
2.  Identify and relate themes in fictional works to prior experience or experiences of others.     x
 3. Relate prior knowledge and experience to literal and inferential information found in text.    x  
 4. Critical Response when they:
 1. Identify the various techniques used by the author to influence the reader's feeling and attitudes.    
 2. Evaluate the appropriateness of a title.     x
 

Revised 7/2001
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