This is the level at which the teacher stretches the student in his thinking and reading. The independent level, on the other hand, is the level at which the child can read easily and with pleasure. Reading scores generally refer to instructional levels.
Snow leopards have long, thick fur, and their base color varies from smoky gray to yellowish tan, with whitish underparts. They have dark grey to black open rosettes on their bodies, with small spots of the same color on their heads and larger spots on their legs and tails.
1 The big cats are the tiger, lion, leopard and jaguar - all members of the genus Panthera. 2  In 2008 the snow leopard was moved into the panthera genus but the move is controversial.  The snow leopard does not have the ability to roar.