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FORMING A GENERAL UNDERSTANDING
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· Understands important ideas and themes
· Summarizes accurately and thoroughly
· Consistently understands and applies content-specific reading vocabulary
· Consistently uses appropriate reading strategies to support understanding
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· Understands important details and ideas
· Summarizes briefly, but accurately
· Usually understands and applies content-specific reading vocabulary
· Frequently uses appropriate reading strategies to support understanding
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· Shows limited or inaccurate understanding of the important details and ideas
· Inconsistently distinguishes between summarizing and retelling ideas
· Infrequently understands and applies content-specific reading vocabulary
· Makes limited or inappropriate use of reading strategies to support understanding
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DEVELOPING AN INTERPRETATION
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· Effectively uses information to support interpretations
· Recognizes the relationships among important ideas
· Distinguishes what is directly stated and what is implied
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· Generally uses information to support interpretations
· Recognizes some of the relationships among important ideas
· Distinguishes what is directly stated and most of what is implied
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· Seldom uses references to support interpretations
· Infrequently recognizes the relationships among important ideas
· Rarely distinguishes what is directly stated and/or what is implied
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MAKING CONNECTIONS
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· Demonstrates clear and thoughtful connections to other knowledge and relevant personal experiences
· Consistently and effectively incorporates textual evidence to support connections
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· Demonstrates basic connections to other knowledge and relevant personal experiences
· Generally uses textual evidence to support connections
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· Makes few or no connections to other knowledge and relevant personal experiences
· Uses limited and/or inappropriate textual evidence to support conclusions
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EVALUATING CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
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· Makes well supported predictions based on prior personal and literary experiences
· Makes effective value judgments about quality and structure
· Evaluates the use of literary or artistic devices, author’s or artist’s purpose, intended audience, or points of view
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· Makes basic predictions based on prior personal experiences and occasionally on literary experiences
· Makes satisfactory value judgments about quality and structure
· Recognizes the use of literary or artistic devices, author’s or artist’s purpose, intended audience, or points of view
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· Makes limited or no predictions based on prior or literary experiences
· Makes limited or no value judgments about quality and structure
· Infrequently recognizes the use of literary or artistic devices, author’s or artist’s purpose, intended audience, or points of view
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