General Information
Subject Area: X-Reading/Language Arts (former standards - 2008)
Grade: 4
Strand: Reading Process
Standard: Vocabulary Development - The student uses multiple strategies to develop grade appropriate vocabulary.
Date Adopted or Revised: 01/07
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes
Test Item Specifications
- incorrect meanings of words;
- words with construct similar to the correct response (e.g., same affix, same tense); and
- plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text.
Item Type(s):
This benchmark may be assessed using:
MC
item(s)
N/A
Clarification :
The student will identify familiar base words with prefixes and/or suffixes to determine the meanings of complex words in a text. Simple analysis and/or direct inference may be required.
The student will identify familiar base words with prefixes and/or suffixes to determine the meanings of complex words in a text. Simple analysis and/or direct inference may be required.
Content Limits :
Grade-level appropriate texts should contain vocabulary for assessing prefixes (e.g., re-, un-, pre-, dis-, mis-, in-, non-), suffixes (e.g., -er, -est, -ful, -less, -able, -ly, -or, -ness), and base words.
Grade-level appropriate texts should contain vocabulary for assessing prefixes (e.g., re-, un-, pre-, dis-, mis-, in-, non-), suffixes (e.g., -er, -est, -ful, -less, -able, -ly, -or, -ness), and base words.
Assessed words should be no more than two grade levels above the tested grade.
Contractions (e.g., they’re, it’s) should not be assessed.
Excerpted text should contain the assessed word to provide clear and sufficient context.
Content Focus :
Base Words
Affixes
Base Words
Affixes
Text Attributes :
Texts should be literary or informational.
Other stimuli may include, but are not limited to, illustrations with captions, graphics, and charts.
Texts must contain appropriate words to assess knowledge of base words or affixes.
Texts should be literary or informational.
Other stimuli may include, but are not limited to, illustrations with captions, graphics, and charts.
Texts must contain appropriate words to assess knowledge of base words or affixes.
Distractor Attributes :
Distractors may include, but are not limited to
Distractors may include, but are not limited to
Sample Test Items (2)
| Test Item # | Question | Difficulty | Type |
| Sample Item 1 | The sample item below is based on “Across the Blue Mountains” on page H–9. Read this sentence from the article.
If “packed” means to put items in a container, what does unpacked mean? |
N/A | MC: Multiple Choice |
| Sample Item 2 | The sample item below is based on “Learning to Sing” on page H–12. Read this sentence from the passage.
Which word has the same base word as microphone? |
N/A | MC: Multiple Choice |