Reading+Standards+for+Nonfiction+in+Science

__**Reading Standards for Nonfiction Text in Science:**__ __**Key Ideans and Details:**__ __**Craft and Structure:**__ __**Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:**__ __**Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity :**__
 * The student must be able to:**
 * cite specific evidence from the text.
 * identify the main idea of a text.
 * be able to draw conclusion based on text.
 * construct a summary based on what is given and not prior knowledge or opinions.
 * follow multistep procedures in an experiment and take measurements.
 * The student must be able to:**
 * determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and scientific words.
 * analyze how and why the author chose to organize the text this way.
 * determine and examine the author's purpose for this scientific writing.
 * The student must be able to:**
 * integrate scientific words/phrases with a visual such as a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table.
 * distinguish between fact and opinion of scientific text based on the text and not opinion.
 * compare/Contrast information from the text, experiments, simulations, videos, or multimedia sources.
 * The student must be able to:**
 * to read and comprehend complex scientific texts independently and proficiently by the end of eighth grade.