Reading Outcomes, Grades 3, 5, and 8

• Students will demonstrate positive attitudes toward reading a variety of texts.

• Students will demonstrate their ability to construct, extend, and examine meaning for a variety of texts by using strategic behavior and integrating both their prior knowledge about reading and topic familiarity.

• Students will demonstrate their ability to vary their orientation to the text by interacting with a variety of texts for different purposes. Students will read for literary experience (novels, plays, short stories), to be informed (content texts, articles, editorials), and to perform a task (follow directions, some action required of students).

• Students will demonstrate their ability to interact with texts through four stances: global understanding, developing interpretation, personal reflection/response, and critical stance in order to construct, examine, and extend meaning.

  Students will demonstrate their ability to construct a global understanding when reading a variety of texts for different purposes by considering such things as the main theme or topic and the author's overall purpose or point of view.

  Students will demonstrate their ability to develop an interpretation for a variety of texts and purposes by revisiting the text. Students will clarify, verify, and revise their understanding by considering such things as plot and character development, by organizing text information, or by following directions to complete a task.

  Students will demonstrate their ability to construct a personal reflection/response by considering their prior knowledge and information from the text. Students will compare the author's point of view with their own or new information from the text with their own background knowledge.

  Students will demonstrate their ability to construct a critical stance for a variety of texts and purposes. In forming and substantiating a critical response, students will identify and analyze the author's perspective and craft.

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For comments and inquiries, send email to:
Cam Miller
Curriculum Planner
Berlin Middle School
Worcester County