Standard #: LAFS.4.RL.3.9 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , ST , MC item(s)
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Assessment Limits :
Items may ask the student to compare and/or contrast similar themes, topics, and patterns of events from two or more texts. Items may require the student to use key details from the texts to illustrate these similarities and differences. The themes may be explicitly or implicitly stated. Items should not ask about a singular literary text and should be used with text sets.
Text Types :
The items assessing this standard may be used with two or more grade-appropriate literary texts that are stories, poems, myths, or traditional literature, including those from different cultures. Texts may vary in complexity.
Response Mechanisms :
The Enhanced Item Descriptions section on page 3 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice item type). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
Task Demand and Sample Response Mechanisms :

Task Demand
Compare and/or contrast how similar themes, topics, and patterns of events are treated in two or more texts from different cultures.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Text
• Requires the student to select words and phrases that show similarities and differences in the treatment of topics, patterns of events, and themes. 
EBSR
• Requires the student to select a theme, topic, or pattern of events found in two or more texts and to select words and phrases from the text that show how the authors treat the theme, topic, or pattern of events. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select a description of similarities or differences in the treatment of the same theme, topic, or pattern of events in two or more texts.
Multiselect 
• Requires the student to select multiple similarities or differences in the treatment of the same theme, topic, or pattern of events in two or more texts. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table that compares and contrasts the treatment of similar themes, topics, or patterns of events in two or more texts.