Text Features
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Students gather information from specific images, photographs, or other text features.
Students are unable to gather information from text features or fail to see the text features as useful.
Students are able to use text features to gather information about the topic but do not understand all text features.
Students are able to identify the text feature in which they gathered additional information about the topic.
Students can describe how information found using the text feature relates to the text.
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Students use text features to determine the main idea of the text.
Students are unable to determine the main idea of the text using the text features provided in the text.
Students are able to determine the main idea of the text using text features with few errors.
Students are able to use the text features as clues to determine the main idea of the text. Students use the text features to provide details that support the main idea.
Students are able to explain how the text features provide in the text are used to determine and prove the main idea for the text.
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Students use text features to answer questions about the text.
Students are unable to answer any questions that could be answered using the text features provided in the text.
Students are able to answer some questions using text features but not all of them.
Students are able to answer who, what, when, where, and why questions using the text features provided in the text.
Students are able to use text features to answers higher order questions about the text. Students can create their own question that can be answered using the text features.
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Participation in small group.
Students have a difficult time participating in small group discussion even with help from the teacher.
Students work in small group and participate in group discussions with help from the teacher's probing.
Students participate in the discussion and ask questions when needed.
Students are involved in the small group discussion. Students ask and answer questions to continue dialogue among the teacher and group members.
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Reading fluency
Students have a difficult time reading informational text fluently. Vocabulary and decoding skills are lagging.
Students read fluently but have a difficult time with decoding or vocabulary.
Students are able to read fluently with little or no decoding or vocabulary problems.
Students show above grade level skills in fluency, decoding skills, and vocabulary.
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