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.

 

 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:
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Grade Assessed

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

Revised 7/2001
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