ARM 10.54.3091. ADVANCED READING PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR END OF GRADE 8

(1) An eighth-grade student at the advanced reading level demonstrates superior performance. He/she: (a) demonstrates self-motivation and independence as a learner; (b) describes abstract themes and ideas of the overall reading selection; (c) consistently makes accurate predictions and connections between new material and prior knowledge, interprets stated and inferred main ideas, and identifies important supporting details when reading material beyond the eighth grade; (d) flexibly combines and monitors a variety of strategies to fluently and critically read material with comprehension, interpreting complex elements of fiction and nonfiction, literary devices, and vocabulary beyond eighth-grade level; (e) articulates and evaluates the strategies used to monitor reading progress; (f) sets and meets reading goals; (g) consistently self-selects a variety of material, defines purposes for reading them, and provides thorough, thoughtful, and extensive responses; (h) analyzes both meaning and form and supports that analysis explicitly with examples from the reading material; (i) provides thorough, thoughtful, and extensive responses to the reading material; and (j) compares, contrasts, integrates, evaluates, and extends information, language, and point of view from many print or nonprint sources by relating it to his/her experiences and to world events.