School Improvement in Maryland
Reading to be Informed: Grades 4 – 5

Students will demonstrate their ability to read for information by examining, constructing, and extending meaning from articles, editorials, content texts, and other expository materials related to the content areas.

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Summarize text in a manner that reflects the main ideas, significant details, and its underlying meaning          
Determine the author’s purpose          
Use common organizational structures such as comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and chronological order to gain meaning from text          
Use prior knowledge and ideas presented in texts to make and confirm predictions          
Distinguish among facts, supported inferences, and opinions in text          
Evaluate new information and hypotheses by testing them against known information and ideas          
Compare and contrast information in the text with prior knowledge          
Evaluate the usefulness of information          
Distinguish relevant from irrelevant information contained within text and identify possible points of confusion          
Explain how the tone is reflected in the author’s style          
Evaluate the various functions of language used (to inform or to persuade) to comprehend text