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.

 

 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

  5
 1. Summarize the text.  
  2. Identify the main story elements.    x
  3. Determine the theme, whether it is implied or stated directly.  x
 2.  Developing Interpretation when they:
 1. Identify the main incidents of a plot, their causes, how they influence future action, and how they are resolved.  
 2. Analyze the influence of setting on mood and meaning of the text.   x
 3. Analyze the influence of setting on the mood and meaning of the text.  
 3.  Personal Response when they:
1.  Compare and contrast tales from diverse cultures by tracing the exploits of one character type and connect them to prior experience or the experiences of others.   x
 4.  Critical Response when they:
 1. Evaluate the various techniques used by the author to influence the reader;s feelings and attitudes.   x
 2. Evaluate the author's choice of title.  
3. Explain how the author's life and time are reflected in his or her work.   x
4.  Evaluate text for elements of realism or fantasy.   
 

Revised 7/2001
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