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

  
     
 

 READING Grade 1
    Shaded area denotes the indicators assessed at GR 1 level.

 

 3. Outcome: Students will demonstrate their ability to read to perform a task by examining, constructing, and extending meaning from investigations or other sets of directions. 

  Students are able to do everything required at earlier grades, use text support, and read for:
 1. Global Understanding when they:
. Grade Assessed  2  3
1. State a purpose for reading.    
 2. Determine the author's purpose.    x
3.  Identify the central idea in the text.  x  
4. Identify who would use the text.     
 2.  Developing Interpretation when they:
 1. Restate information from the text. (literal)   x  
 2. Reorganize information from text into a different form (charts, drawings, graphic organizers).  x  
 3. Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs.    x
 4. Use common text features: headings, key words, illustrations, maps, chart, and captions to gain meaning from text.     x
 5. Describe the importance of specific steps in a set of directions.     x
 6. Compare and contrast information in different texts. x   
 7. Explain the connections between illustrations and text and how illustrations support text. (illustrations and text)    
 8. Identify additional information needed to perform the task.     x
 3.  Personal Response when they:
1. Relate prior knowledge and experience to literal and inferential information found in text.  x  
  2. Compare and contrast information in text with prior knowledge.     x
 4.  Critical Response when they:
1. Evaluate directions for clarity.    x
  2. Evaluate common text features.  x  

Revised 7/2001
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