Students can exhibit a basic understanding of uncomplicated literary narratives.
In uncomplicated informational passages, they are able to locate simple details at the sentence and paragraph level. These students are beginning to develop the reasoning skills that will enable them to answer more complex questions and comprehend more challenging passages. 20-23 Students can grasp the important components of uncomplicated literary narratives and informational passages. They respond with increasing confidence to factual questions in informational passages. They can identify comparative relationships between ideas and characters, and can identify clearly stated cause-effect relationships found in uncomplicated texts.