Standard #: LA.5.1.7.3 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

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


Clarification :
The student will determine the main idea (stated or implied), locate relevant details and facts, draw logical conclusions, or make appropriate inferences within or across grade-level appropriate texts. In addition, students will identify chronological order (sequencing of events).

Content Limits :
Grade-level appropriate texts should include an identifiable main idea (stated or strongly implied) and relevant details from which students may draw logical conclusions or make appropriate inferences. In addition, texts may include a clear, identifiable chronological order (sequence of events). 

Paraphrasing should not be assessed. 

Items may assess a student's ability to identify a strongly stated main idea.

Content Focus :
Main Idea (stated or implied),
Relevant Details,
Conclusions/Inferences,
Chronological Order

Text Attributes :
Texts should be literary or informational.

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

Texts should include a main idea (stated or implied) and relevant details that will enable students to draw logical conclusions and make appropriate inferences.

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

• details that do not support the main idea; 
• incorrect interpretations of the main idea that are too broad, too narrow, or are a specific fact; 
• incorrect inferences or conclusions based on details found in the text;
• events that are drawn from the text and presented out of order; and 
• plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text. 

Note: Items should not assess a student’s ability to identify details of least importance when assessing a main idea statement. 

Note: A main idea should be stated in a complete sentence.

Sample Test Items (3)