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

  • reads text: one page of short paragraphs

  • follows simple written instructions

  • identifies the main idea and supporting details

  • begins to consider ideas from reading in development of own opinions

  • 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

  • makes judgments using evidence from the text

  • recognizes how one's own attitude may influence interpretation


Writing
  • answers simple comprehension questions

  • introduces words from reading into writing
  • uses appropriate mechanics (see The Level Descriptions,
    p 31)

  • presents opinions based on reading

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



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