Question 1 Main Idea(s) and Supporting Details/Summary

Responses in level 3 name the main idea of the text and also provide details to support the main idea. Summaries need to be short! You will note that the student has not separated her own ideas from the summary of the text, which is common at level 3. At a level 4, if the student includes her own ideas, she will keep them separate from her summary of the text. Responses in level 4 name the main idea of the text and also provide details to support the main idea. If the text being summarized is structured in a clear way, the summary often reflects the structure. The main ideas in the texts students read may not have been explicitly stated. You will note the student has separated his own opinions from the summary. Responses at level 5 will refer to multiple main ideas and will give specific details from across several parts of the text as support. The ideas may be implicit ones. At this level, readers often quote the text. You will note that in this response, one idea is supported more than the other. Responses at level 6 recognize a second main idea or a central idea. The student carefully selects details, often quotes,from across the text to support this central idea.This may mean reorganizing information from the text. At this level, the response does not include any of the student’s own opinion.