You will be completing a group assignment showing you understand how to find key details in order to summarize, find

meanings to new words, and infer based on your chapter, what’s going to happen next in the story.

Level 4 (Highest) Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 (lowest)

4 3 2 1

Key Details The student shows an The student shows The student shows The student only
understanding of the they generally know they understand shows they know most
chapter and is able to what is going on, but most of the of the characters and
locate all of the misses a few characters and setting. They miss
important details to important details that setting, but struggles most if not all of the
summarize the throw off the to understand what's important key points
chapter. The student summary a bit. The happening in the and summarize the
shows understanding chapter very
student shows an chapter. The student
of character, setting, minimally.
understanding of finds some of the
and the context in
most of the important key details
order to seek out
characters and the and struggles with
those key details.
setting. They using the context in
struggle with the the story.
context quite a bit.
New Words The student has the The student has the The student's The students
graphic organizer graphic organizer graphic organizer is organizer is not filled
completely filled out mostly filled out, and filled out minimally out at all and fail to
and is able to find a is able to find a and New words present a new word
relatively close, if not definition that is aren’t clearly in their presentation
exact definition to the around the same, defined. They have to the class
new word that was but not quite. It the words on the
not understood. The shows on the organizers, but isn’t
graphic organizer graphic organizer presented to the
shows what points of where they missed class.
the sentence they certain details. They
clearly found the still clearly define the
understanding of the word in their own
word and they are finding when
able to clearly define presenting to the
it when presenting to class.
the class.
Inference The student is able The student is able The student The student guesses
to use the summary to use the key details struggles with with no context clues,
of the chapter and they found in the context clues and key points, or
the context clues at chapter to come to a gives a guess based understanding of the
the end of the guess of what is on what they seem chapter, but based
chapter to make a going to happen, but to think will happen on what they want to
reasonable educated misses a few key rather than using the happen.
guess on what will points at the end of context clues and
happen next and the chapter. key points at the end
clearly proves it with of the chapter.
the key details found
in their chapter.