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Matches words and pictures involving concrete concepts and everyday objects, and follows short simple written instructions.
Reading Level 2: Emergent Reading
Matches words and pictures involving prepositions and abstract concepts; uses cuing systems (by sounding out, using simple sentence structure, and familiar words) to interpret phrases by reading on.
Reading Level 3: Basic Reading
Interprets meaning (by matching words and phrases, completing a sentence, or matching adjacent words) in a short and simple text by reading on or reading back.
Reading Level 4: Reading for Meaning
Reads on or reads back in order to link and interpret information located in various parts of the text.
Reading Level 5: Interpretive Reading
Reads on and reads back in order to combine and interpret information from various parts of the text in association with external information (based on recalled factual knowledge) that “completes” and contextualizes meaning.
Reading Level 6: Inferential Reading
Reads on and reads back through longer (narrative, document or expository) in order to combine information from various parts of the text so as to infer the writer's purpose.
Reading Level 7: Analytical Reading
Locates information in longer (narrative, document or expository) texts by reading on and reading back in order to combine information from various parts of the text so as to infer the writer's personal beliefs (value systems, prejudices, and/or biases).
Reading Level 8: Critical Reading
Locates information in a longer (narrative, document or expository) texts by reading on and reading back in order to combine information from various parts of the text so as to infer and evaluate what the writer has assumed about both the topic and the characteristics of the reader – such as age, knowledge, and personal beliefs (value systems, prejudices, and/or biases).
Applies single step addition or subtraction operations. Recognizes simple shapes. Matches numbers and pictures. Counts in whole numbers.
Math Level 2: Emergent Numeracy
Applies a two-step addition or subtraction operation involving carrying, checking (through very basic estimation) or conversion of pictures to numbers. Estimates the length of familiar objects. Recognizes common two-dimensional shapes.
Translates verbal information (presented in a sentence, simple graph or table using one arithmetic operation in several repeated steps. Translates graphical information into fractions. Interprets place value of whole numbers up to thousands. Interprets simple common everyday units of measurement.
Math Level 4: Beginning Numeracy
Translates verbal or graphic information into simple arithmetic problems. Uses multiple different arithmetic operations (in the correct order) on whole numbers, fractions, and/or decimals.
Math Level 5: Competent Numeracy
Translates verbal; graphic; or tabular information into an arithmetic form in order to solve a given problem. Solves multiple-operation problems (using the correct order of arithmetic operations) involving everyday units of measurement and/or whole and mixed numbers. Converts basic measurement units from one level of measurement to another (for example metres to centimetres).
Math Level 6: Mathematically Skilled
Solves multiple-operation problems (using the correct order of arithmetic operations) involving fractions, ratios, and decimals. Translates verbal and graphic representation information into symbolic, algebraic, and equation form in order to solve a given mathematical problem. Checks and estimates answers using external knowledge (not provided within the problem).
Math Level 7: Concrete Problem Solving
Extracts and converts (for example, with respect to measurement units) information from tables, charts, visual and symbolic presentations in order to identify, and then solves multi-step problems.
Math Level 8: Abstract Problem Solving
Identifies the nature of an unstated mathematical problem embedded within verbal or graphic information and then translate this into symbolic, algebraic, or equation form in order to solve the problem.
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