Standard #: LAFS.910.RL.3.9 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

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


Assessment Limits :
Items should focus on the similarities and differences between the source material and the newer text. Items may focus primarily on either text, but items should indicate or test for understanding of a clear link between the two works.
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 an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to select sentences or phrases from each work that show similarities or differences between the works.
• Requires the student to select a difference or similarity between the works and then to select how this affects the meaning of the work.
 Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select examples from the text that show the works’ different treatments of the source material. 
Open Response
• Requires the student to explain the similarities or differences between the source material and the newer work in one or two sentences. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple details or quotations that demonstrate how the author of the newer work has transformed source material. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by analyzing how an author draws on, transforms, or interprets aspects of a source work.