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**Reading Grade 11**
A student scoring at the below basic level demonstrates competency with below grade-level text only and requires extensive support to comprehend and interpret fiction and nonfiction.
 * Below Basic**

A student scoring at the basic level generally utilizes some reading strategies to comprehend grade-level appropriate fiction and nonfiction:
 * Basic**


 * Identifies word meanings using context clues and word parts
 * Identifies and explains details in support of a conclusion
 * Identifies or explains main ideas
 * Attempts to summarize text and/or to make within or among text-to-text connections
 * Identifies and interprets features of texts (example: headings, graphics), including content appropriate to subsections
 * Understands the relationships between text structure, organizational patterns (example: sequencing, comparison/contrast), and purpose of text (example: narrative, informational)
 * Explains the use of figurative language (example: simile, metaphor) and literary elements (example: character)
 * Differentiates between factual statements and explicitly stated opinions in nonfiction
 * Identifies, describes and/or explains bias in nonfiction
 * Compares and/or explains the sequence of steps in a list of directions
 * Identifies and describes the purpose of graphics and charts

A student scoring at the proficient level routinely utilizes a variety of reading strategies to comprehend and interpret grade-level appropriate fiction and nonfiction:
 * Proficient**


 * Applies a variety of strategies to determine meanings of words, including synonyms and antonyms, using context clues and word parts
 * Makes inferences, draws conclusions, and generalizes, using textual support
 * Identifies and explains main ideas
 * Summarizes text
 * Makes within and among text-to-text connections
 * Interprets and analyzes: purpose of text (example: narrative, informational); organizational patterns (example: sequencing, comparison/contrast); and relationships among literary elements (character, setting, plot, theme, tone, style, mood, symbolism)
 * Interprets and analyzes the use of figurative language (example: simile, metaphor), author's style, and point of view
 * Interprets and analyzes the use of facts and opinions in nonfiction
 * Analyzes the effectiveness of bias and propaganda in nonfiction
 * Describes and analyzes the sequence of steps in a list of directions
 * analyzes and evaluates graphics and charts

A student scoring at the advanced level consistently utilizes sophisticated strategies to comprehend and interpret complex fiction and nonfiction:
 * Advanced**


 * Analyzes and evaluates the use of word meanings and shades of meaning
 * Analyzes and evaluates inferences, conclusions, and generalizations
 * Effectively summarizes all ideas within text
 * Summarizes and evaluates abstract themes
 * Analyzes and explains within and among text-to text connections
 * Analyzes and explains differences among features of different texts
 * Evaluates the author's use of text elements, organizational patterns (example: sequencing, comparison/contrast)
 * Analyzes and evaluates the effect of figurative language (example: simile, metaphor), author's style, and point of view
 * Analyzes and evaluates strategies and evidence used in arguments in nonfiction
 * Evaluates the relevance and accuracy of information in graphics and charts

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