School Improvement in Maryland
Reading to Perform a Task: Grades 4 – 5

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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Summarize the steps in text

         

Revise and clarify steps in a set of directions, instructions, and procedures

         

Reorganize information from the text into a different form (charts, drawings, or graphic organizers)

         

Identify additional information needed

         

Evaluate new information and hypotheses by testing them against known information and ideas

         

Distinguish relevant from irrelevant information contained within text and identify possible points of confusion