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Item Type(s):
This benchmark may be assessed using:
MC
item(s)
- Clarification :
The student will identify, explain, analyze, and determine meaning from a variety of text features. - Content Limits :
Text features should be assessed within grade-level appropriate literary nonfiction texts (e.g., biographies, autobiographies, diary entries, memoirs) or literary fictional texts when appropriate.Texts should include a single, identifiable text feature or should contain a variety of text features.
Transitional devices, tables of contents, glossaries, bold text, and indices should not be assessed.
- Content Focus :
Text features (e.g., titles, subtitles, headings, subheadings, sections, charts, tables, graphs, illustrations, maps, diagrams, captions, italicized text, text boxes) - Text Attributes :
Literary nonfiction texts are more suited than literary fictional texts toward item development for this benchmark; however, a literary text may occasionally be appropriate.Stimuli found in texts may include titles, headings, subheadings, sections, charts, tables, graphs, illustrations, maps, diagrams, captions, italicized text, 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 or irrelevant information drawn from text features; and
- plausible but incorrect distractors based on text features.
Note: Items should not ask the student for literal references, such as
- 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 (e.g., subheadings, captions), answer choices may be developed from other areas of the text but should be parallel and balanced.
Note: When assessing a text feature in a fiction or literary nonfiction passage, Benchmark LA.910.2.2.1 should be used. When assessing a text feature in an informational/expository nonfiction article or in a functional selection (how-to documents, webpages, etc.), Benchmark LA.910.6.1.1 should be used.
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question: Sample Question for Grade 9
The sample item below is based on “A Day in the Stream” on page H–2.
Based on the passage “A Day in the Stream,” which caption would be most appropriate for the picture on page H–2? - Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
- Test Item #: Sample Item 2
- Question: Sample Question for Grade 10
The sample item below is based on “Cutting Off the World’s Roof ” on page H–15 and references the illustration on page H–17.
Which statement from the passage is best supported by the diagram on page ___? - Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
- Test Item #: Sample Item 3
- Question: The Grade 10 sample item below is based on “Woman with Flower/Offspring” on page G–15.
The text box that accompanies the poems “Woman with Flower” and “Offspring” was most likely included to
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
