Standard #: LAFS.5.RI.2.6 (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 use details from the text to explain similarities and/or differences in accounts given of the same event/topic. Items also may ask the student to consider how varying points of view affect the account. Items should not exclusively ask the student to identify the authors’ accounts of the events/topics or the points of view.
Text Types :
The items assessing this standard may be used with one or more grade-appropriate informational texts. 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
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting similarities and/or differences in the point of view they represent.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Text
• Requires the student to select sentences or phrases from the text that show similarities or differences in how multiple accounts present or develop an event or topic. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select a correct analysis of the point of view represented in multiple accounts of the same event or topic. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple similarities or differences between the points of view of multiple accounts of the same event or topic. 
EBSR
• Requires the student to select the correct analysis of the point of view represented in multiple accounts of the same event or topic and then to select sentences or phrases from each account that show the similarities or differences in points of view.
• Requires the student to select the correct analysis of how point of view affects the account of an event or topic and then to select sentences or phrases that illustrate this impact.
Task Demand
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting similarities and/or differences in the point of view they represent.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by comparing and contrasting multiple accounts of the same event or topic with respect to the points of view they represent.