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Item Type(s):
This benchmark may be assessed using:
MC
item(s)
- Clarification :
The student will identify, analyze, and determine meaning from a variety of text features found within a text. - Content Limits :
Text features should be assessed using grade-level appropriate texts that may include, but are not limited to, informational articles and functional reading materials (e.g., websites, consumer documents, how-to articles, brochures, fliers, other real-world documents).Texts should include a single, identifiable text feature or should contain a variety of text features.
Making a report, conducting interviews, preparing to take a test, and performing a task should not be assessed.
- Content Focus :
Text Features (e.g., headings, subheadings, titles, subtitles, sections, captions, graphs, italicized text, charts, tables, illustrations, maps, diagrams, text boxes) - Text Attributes :
Texts should be informational.Texts may include, but are not limited to, grade-level appropriate informational articles and functional reading materials (e.g., websites, consumer documents, how-to articles, brochures, fliers, other real-world documents).
Stimuli found in text may include headings, subheadings, titles, subtitles, sections, captions, graphs, italicized text, charts, tables, illustrations, maps, diagrams, and text boxes.
- Distractor Attributes :
Distractors may include, but are not limited to
- incorrect analysis and interpretation of text features;
- facts, details, or other information drawn from the text features but unrelated to the test item;
- incorrect analysis and interpretation of the text features;
- incorrect or irrelevant information drawn from text features; and
- plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text.
- On what page would you find...?;
- In which chapter would you find...?; or
- In what kind of reference book would you find information about...?
Note: When assessing a text feature in an informational/expository nonfiction article or in a functional selection (how-to documents, webpages, etc.), Benchmark LA.6.6.1.1 should be used. When assessing a text feature in a fiction or literary nonfiction passage, Benchmark LA.6.2.2.1 should be used.
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question: The sample item below is based on “Marksdale State Park” on page H–7.
Which text feature of the website provides the most accurate information about the locations of Marksdale State Park facilities? - Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
- Test Item #: Sample Item 2
- Question: The sample item below is based on “Ben’s Harmonica” on page H–2.
The Time Line is important to the passage because it - Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
