Standard #: LAFS.8.RL.2.6 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , MS , MC , SHT item(s)
N/A


Assessment Limits :
Items should not simply ask the student to identify points of view but should focus on how they affect the tone of the text. Items should ask about the interactions of multiple points of view. Items may focus on what the audience knows that the character doesn’t know, or what the character knows that the audience doesn’t know.
Text Types :
Items assessing this standard may be used with one or more grade-appropriate literary texts. Texts may vary in complexity.
Response Mechanisms :
The Technology-Enhanced Item Descriptions section on pages 3 and 4 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice and Editing Task item types). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
Task Demand and Sample Response Mechanisms :

Task Demand
Analyze how different points of view of the characters and the audience or reader create different effects.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select an analysis about how a difference in points of view affects the text. 
• Requires the student to select explicit or implicit details that support an inference about how a difference in points of view affects the text. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple explicit or implicit details that support an inference about how a difference in points of view affects the text. 
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to determine a difference between two points of view and then select an analysis about how the difference in points of view affects the text. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by matching differences in characters’ and the audience’s points of view to effects they create, such as suspense and humor.