(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.