Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part XI - Accountability/Testing
Subpart 5 - Bulletin 127-LEAP Connect Assessment, Louisiana Connectors for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Chapter 93 - English Language Arts
Subchapter E - Grade 4
Section XI-9325 - Reading Informational Text

A. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly.

B. Refer to details and examples in a text when drawing basic inferences from an informational text.

C. Determine the main idea of an informational text.

D. Identify supporting details of an informational text.

E. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.

F. Identify signal words that help determine what the text structure is in an informational text (e.g., description, problem/solution, time/order, compare/contrast, cause/effect, directions.

G. Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

H. Organize information presented in an informational text to demonstrate the text structure.

I. Use text features (keywords, glossary) to locate information relevant to a given topic or question.

J. Use tools (e.g., sidebars, icons, glossary) to locate information relevant to a given topic.

K. Use search tools or text features as a means of locating relevant information.

L. Determine if information in a text is firsthand or secondhand.

M. Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic.

N. Use information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) to answer questions.

O. Explain how the information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively contributes to the understanding of the text in which it appears.

P. Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.

Q. Compare and contrast how different authors use reasons and evidence to support the same topics across texts.

R. Identify reasons that the author uses to support ideas in an informational text.

S. Identify facts that an author uses to support a specific point or opinion.

T. Report out about two or more texts on the same self-selected topic.

U. Identify the most important information about a topic gathered from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

V. Read or be read to and recount self-selected informational texts or adapted texts.