Standard #: LA.3.1.7.5 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

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


Clarification :
The student will identify the text structures/organizational patterns and determine how they impact
meaning within text.

Content Limits :
Text structures found within grade-level appropriate texts should be identifiable and may include, but are not limited to, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, and sequence of events (chronological order).

Text features should not be assessed in this benchmark but will be assessed in LA.3.2.2.1 for literary text and LA.3.6.1.1 for informational text.

Content Focus :


Text Structures/Organizational Patterns (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, sequence of events, definition/explanation, question/answer, listing/ description)

Text Attributes :
Texts should be literary or informational.


Informational texts are more suited than literary texts toward item development for this benchmark; however, a literary text may occasionally be appropriate (e.g., one that utilizes sequence of events, comparison/contrast, or cause/effect). 

Other stimuli may include, but are not limited to, illustrations with captions, graphics, and charts.

Text structures must be clearly evident as indicated by signal words and phrases.

Texts should contain an identifiable organizational pattern.

Distractor Attributes :
Distractors may include, but are not limited to


• incorrect interpretations of text structures/organizational patterns;
• incorrect relationships (e.g., cause/effect, comparison/contrast) within the organizational pattern;
• incorrect details drawn from text;
• incorrect sequence of events (chronological order); and
• plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text.

Note: Distractors may include a brief elaboration on how the organizational pattern impacts meaning in the text and should not be a list of general categories (e.g., sequence of events [chronological order], compare/contrast, cause/effect).

Sample Test Items (2)