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Item Type(s):
This benchmark may be assessed using:
TM
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EBSR
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MS
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ST
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MC
item(s)
- Assessment Limits :
Items may ask the student to integrate information in order to develop or support inferences drawn from the texts. Items should require the student to use details from two or more texts and should be developed to text sets on the same topic. - Text Types :
The items assessing this standard may be used with two or more grade-appropriate informational texts. Texts may vary in complexity. - Response Mechanisms :
The Enhanced Item Descriptions section on page 3 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice item type). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below. - Task Demand and Sample Response Mechanisms :
Task Demand
Integrate information from two or more texts to make or support an inference drawn from the texts.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Text
- Requires the student to select sentences or phrases from each text that support an inference drawn from the texts.
- Requires the student to select the correct inference about the texts and then to select words or phrases from each text to support that inference.
- Requires the student to select the answer to a question requiring an inference using information from two or more texts.
- Requires the student to select multiple words, phrases, or sentences from the texts to support an inference about the texts.
- Requires the student to complete a table by matching inferences from several texts with supporting details from each text.
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STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity
This MEA will deepen students' knowledge of the Bill of Rights through collaborative problem solving. Students are required to analyze data in order to recommend three Amendments to celebrate during a community festival. They will perform operations with fractions and mixed numbers to recommend advertising options for the festival within a budget.
Students analyze a weekly weather forecast to rank and determine which day would be best for flying a kite.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.
This Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) is written at a 5th grade level. The Styrofoam Eliminators MEA provides students with an engineering problem in which they must work as a team to design a procedure to select the best alternative to using Styrofoam trays in school cafeterias.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.
This model eliciting activity teaches students a common version of the scientific method by making them the judges of a science fair. In order to judge the science fair projects they have to evaluate the importance of each step of the scientific method and assign a value to it.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.
Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades K-5
Read about the sinking of the Titanic and learn to identify key ideas in multiple texts, review similarities and differences between those key ideas, and identify the difference between important and interesting key ideas. This interactive tutorial will help you integrate information from several texts on the same topic.
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorial
Read about the sinking of the Titanic and learn to identify key ideas in multiple texts, review similarities and differences between those key ideas, and identify the difference between important and interesting key ideas. This interactive tutorial will help you integrate information from several texts on the same topic.
Type: Original Student Tutorial