Reading performance tasks

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A. Answering questions B. Generating questions C. Non-linguistic tasks D. Filling out a chart or grid
E. Semantic Map F. Indicating structural aspects of the text G. Metacognitive judgments H. "Product"-oriented tasks

F. Indicating structural aspects of the text

[higher level]

1. Make an outline of the main points and supporting details.

 

[lower level]

2. Organize the ideas from the text by writing them in the appropriate places in the graphic below; the specific details should be grouped with the main ideas that they support.

[For an even lower level, you could include a list of three main ideas and nine details in random order; students use the reading to write them in the graphic in the correct place.]