Performance Indicators
 
  Level 2 Level 3

Reading
  • uses context cues and personal experience to gather meaning from the text

  • scans to find simple information

  • uses phonics and knowledge of word parts to decode more easily

  • uses conventions of formal text to find information

  • reads text made up of a number of short paragraphs

  • text is familiar with personal and/or general relevance

  • text has concrete information in familiar concrete wording

  • some simple inferential meaning

  • skims to understand type of text, scans to find specific information

  • uses various conventions of formal texts to locate and interpret information

  • text is within the interest of the reader with personal and/or general relevance

  • text has a combination of concrete and inferential meaning, some of it complex, some unfamiliar vocabulary


Writing
  • answers simple comprehension questions

  • uses appropriate mechanics (see The Level Descriptions,
    p 31)

  • uses appropriate mechanics (see The Level Descriptions,
    p. 32)



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