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

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