Content focus includes all of the following except... main idea, summary statement, relevant details, conclusions/inferences, cause and effect, and predictions.
What is Cause and Effect?
100
The following statement is found under what specification: The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships within texts.
What is clarification?
100
This is where it states student will analyze a variety of text structures and text features and explain their impact on meaning in text.
What is the benchmark?
100
This is where we find out that students may compare or contrast character, setting, descriptive language, subject, author's purpose, author's perspective, main idea, themes, and topics.
What is content limits?
200
Texts should be literary or informational.
What are text attributes?
200
According to content limits, what is not assessed under this benchmark.
What is paraphrasing?
200
Name one text attribute for cause and effect.
What is text should be literary or informational?
What is other stimuli may include, but are not limited to, illustrations with captions, graphics, and charts.
What is texts should include an identifiable cause and effect relationship that may be state or implied.
200
Comparison/contrast, cause/effect, chronological order, argument/support, definition/explanation, question/answer and listing/description refer to:
What are text structures or organizational patterns?
200
This is where we find that to assess this benchmark across texts, items should be based on two related texts that contain elements that can be compared or contrasted.
What is text attribute?
300
The student will analyze the author's purpose and perspective in a variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning.
What is benchmark?
300
Main ideas should be expressed this way.
What is a complete sentence or summary statement?
300
What key word in the following question tells us this is a cause and effect question stem? "Why did six men sail on the James Caird while the others stayed behind?
What is "why"?
300
This type of text is more suited for this benchmark.
What is informational text?
300
The special note under distractor attributes specifies that when creating distractors we should not do this.
What is when constructing comparison items, distractors should not include contrast elements or when constructing a contrast item distractors should not compare elements?
400
These should not be a list of general categories (e.g. to inform or to persuade) but should include specific examples related to the text.
What are distractors?
400
When main idea is assessed in a literacy text, it should be assessed this way. Give an example.
Which statement best summarizes the events in the passage?
400
Name the important note about cause and effect found under distractor attributes.
What is when constructing cause and effect items using literary texts, it is preferred that interactions and situations between characters be attributed to LA.7.2.1.2 character development/point of view.
400
When creating distractors, this should be included in them.
What is a brief elaboration on how the organizational pattern impacts meaning in the text and should not be a list of general categories (e.g., chronological order, comparison/contrast, cause/effect).
400
What key word in the following question tells us this is a comparison question stem? "How are Forrage and Davies similar?