Updated 08/20/12

Reading Comprehension Proficiency Scale -- Informational

9
th
12
th
Grade

12.1.6 Comprehension: Students will extract and construct meaning using prior knowledge, applying text information, and monitoring comprehension while
reading grade level text.

BASIC______________________2 PROFICIENT_______________________________3 ADVANCED_____________________________4
Authors
Purpose
12.1.6.a
Student understands the authors
purpose and perspective.
Student understands the authors purpose and
perspective.
Student can analyze and evaluate the meaning,
reliability, and validity of the text while considering
authors purpose and perspective while also considering
information from additional sources.
Student understands the authors purpose and
perspective.
Student can analyze and evaluate the meaning,
reliability, and validity of the text while considering
authors purpose and perspective and by making text-
to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Informational
Text
12.1.6.d
Student can summarize informational
text using main idea and supporting
details.
Student can summarize, analyze, and synthesize
informational text using main idea and supporting details.
Student can summarize, analyze, and synthesize self-
selected informational texts using main idea and
supporting details.
Organizational
Patterns
12.1.6.e
Student can identify organizational
patterns in informational text (e.g.,
sequence, cause and effect,
compare/contrast, fact/opinion,
proposition/support, concept
definition, question/answer).
Student can apply knowledge of organizational patterns
found in informational text to aid in reading
comprehension (e.g., sequence, cause and effect,
compare/contrast, fact/opinion, proposition/support,
concept definition, question/answer).
Students can apply knowledge of organizational
patterns in informational text to analyze and
evaluate text.
Text Features
(Inf. Text)
12.1.6.f
Student can identify text features (e.g.,
index, annotations, maps, charts,
tables, graphs, headings, subheadings,
photographs, lists)
Student can locate information
relating to the texts main ideas
Student can utilize text features to locate information
Student can use text features to analyze and evaluate the
text
Student can use text features to gain meaning from a
text
Student can analyze, evaluate, and synthesize text
features to predict, summarize, and infer.
Student can use multiple text features to find
meaning outside of the text.
Inferences
12.1.6.g
Student can make and explain
inferences based on the
characteristics of informational texts
(e.g. textbooks, periodicals, essays).
Student can analyze, evaluate, and make inferences
based on the characteristics of informational texts.
Students can provide evidence from the text to support
understanding.
Student can analyze, evaluate, and make inferences
based on the characteristics of informational texts.
Student can apply this knowledge to text-to-text,
text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Perspective
12.1.6.h
Student can cite and explain the social,
historical, cultural, and biographical
influences in informational texts.
Student can critique the social, historical, cultural, and
biographical influences in informational texts.
Student can analyze, critique, and make inferences and
text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections
based on the social, historical, cultural, and biographical
influences in a variety of genres.
Questioning
12.1.6.j
Student can answer basic literal,
inferential, critical, and interpretive
questions when.
Student can generate and answer literal, inferential,
critical, and interpretive questions to analyze, synthesize,
and evaluate prior knowledge, information from the text,
and additional sources to support.
Student can generate and answer inferential, critical,
and interpretive questions to analyze, synthesize, and
evaluate prior knowledge with information from the
text.
Student can apply this knowledge to other situations
and/or texts.