School Improvement in Maryland
Reading to Perform: Grades 6 – 8

Students will demonstrate their ability to read to perform a task by examining, constructing, and extending meaning from investigations or other sets of directions.

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Identify how someone would use the text

          

Compare and contrast information from different articles or procedures on the same topic

          

Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and experience

          

Reorganize information from different articles or procedures on the same topic

          

Connect and clarify main ideas and concepts and identify their relationship to other sources, related topics, or prior experience

          

Compare and contrast information with prior knowledge

          

Analyze the structure and features of functional workplace documents, including format, graphics, sequence and headers and how authors use these features to achieve their purposes and to make information accessible and useable

          
Evaluate the usefulness, clarity, and internal consistency of the text’s organizational structure