Standard #: LAFS.7.RI.2.5 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , MS , MC , OR , GR , SHT item(s)
Items should focus on the way that structure develops ideas or influences meaning. Items may refer to the structure of an entire piece or the structure of a particular section. Items may ask about varying form or structure within a text or may ask the student to determine where a shift in structure occurs.


Assessment Limits :
Items should focus on the way that structure develops ideas or influences meaning. Items may refer to the structure of an entire piece or the structure of a particular section. Items may ask about varying form or structure within a text or may ask the student to determine where a shift in structure occurs.
Text Types :
Items assessing this standard may be used with one or more grade-appropriate informational 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 the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to select words or phrases from the text that explicitly demonstrate the text’s structure.
• Requires the student to select an analysis about structure and then to select words or phrases from the text to support the analysis selected. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select how the text’s structure contributes to the development of ideas in the text. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple elements or descriptions of the text’s structure.
• Requires the student to select multiple explanations of how the text’s structure contributes to the development of ideas in the text. 
Open Response
• Requires the student to describe how the text’s structure contributes to the development of an idea. 
GRID
• Requires the student to drag descriptions, analyses, or elements of the text’s structure into a graphic organizer. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by comparing effects of structural elements upon the text as a whole.