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Extended Response Reading Rubric

Grade 3

• I explain the main idea and important information from the text.
• I connect my own ideas or experiences to the author's ideas.
• I use examples and important details to support my answer.
• I balance the author's ideas with my own ideas.

• I explain some of the main ideas and important information from the text.
• I connect some of my own ideas and experiences to the author's ideas.
• I use some examples and important details to support my answer.
• I balance only some of the author's ideas with my own ideas.

• I explain only a few ideas from the text.
• I summarize the text without including any of my own ideas or experiences

OR

• I explain my own ideas without explaining the text.

• I use general statements instead of specific details and examples.
   

• I explain little or nothing from the text.
• I use incorrect or unimportant information from the text.
• I write too little to show I understand the text.

• I write nothing.
• I do not respond to the task.