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.

 

 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

   5
  1. Summarize the steps in text.   x
 2.  Developing Interpretation when they:
 1. Revise and clarify steps in a set of directions, instructions, and procedures.   x
 2. Reorganize information from the text into a different form (charts, drawings, or graphic organizers).   x
 3. Identify additional information needed.   x
 3.  Personal Response when they:
1. Evaluate new information and hypotheses by testing them against known information and ideas.   x
 4.  Critical Response when they:
 1. Distinguish relevant from irrelevant information contained within text and identify possible points of confusion.   x
 

Revised 7/2001
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