Proficient+Reader

=Proficient Reader=


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 * Reads complex children's literature. || ||
 * Reads and understands informational texts (e.g., want ads, brochures, schedules, catalogs, manuals) with guidance. || ||
 * Develops strategies and criteria for selecting reading materials independently. || ||
 * Uses resources (e.g., encyclopedias, articles, Internet, and nonfiction texts) to locate information independently. || ||
 * Gathers and analyzes information from graphs, charts, tables, and maps with guidance. || ||
 * Integrates information from multiple nonfiction sources to deepen understanding of a topic with guidance. || ||
 * Uses resources (e.g., dictionary and thesaurus) to increase vocabulary independently. || ||
 * Identifies literary devices (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, and foreshadowing). || ||
 * Discusses literature with reference to theme, author's purpose, and style (literary elements), and author's craft. || ||
 * Begins to generate in-depth responses in small group literature discussions. || ||
 * Begins to generate in-depth written responses to literature. || ||
 * Uses increasingly complex vocabulary in different subjects and in oral and written response to literature. || ||
 * Uses reasons and examples to support ideas and conclusions. || ||
 * Probes for deeper meaning by "reading between the lines" in response to literature. || ||