Update of the Maryland Learning Outcomes Maryland School Performance Assessment Program Baltimore County Public Schools Grade Level Designations
	READING Grade 8     Shaded area denotes the indicators assessed at GR 8 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  6  7  1. Identify how someone would use the text.   x   x  2.  Developing Interpretation when they:  1. Compare and contrast information from different articles or procedures on the same topic.     x  2. Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and experience.   x   x  3.  Reorganize information from different articles or procedures on the same topic.   x   x  3.  Personal Response when they: 1. Connect and clarify main ideas and concepts and identify their relationship to other sources, related topics, or prior experience.     2.  Compare and contrast information with prior knowledge.   x   x  4.  Critical Response when they:  1. Analyze the structure and features of functional workplace documents, including format, graphics, sequence, and headers and how authors use these features to achieve their purposes and to make information accessible and useable.   x   x  2. Evaluate the usefulness, clarity, and internal consistency of the text's organizational structure.