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Item Type(s):
This benchmark may be assessed using:
TM
,
EBSR
,
MS
,
MC
,
OR
,
SHT
item(s)
- Assessment Limits :
Items may address ideas or concepts in the text as a whole or may address individual techniques used by the author, including the connections drawn among ideas. - 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 how the author unfolds an analysis or series of events or ideas.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
- Requires the student to select multiple sentences or phrases that show how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events.
Multiple Choice
- Requires the student to select the correct analysis of how an author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events.
Multiselect
- Requires the student to select multiple statements analyzing how an author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events.
Open Response
- Requires the student to explain how the author develops the analysis or series of ideas or events in one or two sentences.
EBSR
- Requires the student to choose a correct explanation of how an author makes connections among ideas and then to select phrases or sentences from excerpted text that demonstrate these connections.
Table Match
- Requires the student to complete a table by matching a series of ideas or events to descriptions of how the author develops them.
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Lesson Plan
Original Student Tutorials
Teaching Idea
Unit/Lesson Sequence
Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades 6-12
Learn to identify the text structure and its purpose within a nonfiction text. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts from Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. You'll examine how the text structure contributes to meaning in the text, and you'll analyze how the order of events and relationships between events add to the meaning as well.
Make sure to complete both parts. Click here to launch PART TWO.
Learn to identify the text structure and its purpose within a nonfiction text. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts from Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. You'll examine how the text structure contributes to meaning in the text, and you'll analyze how the order of events and relationships between events add to the meaning as well.
Make sure to complete both parts. Click here to launch PART ONE.
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorials
Learn to identify the text structure and its purpose within a nonfiction text. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts from Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. You'll examine how the text structure contributes to meaning in the text, and you'll analyze how the order of events and relationships between events add to the meaning as well.
Make sure to complete both parts. Click here to launch PART ONE.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify the text structure and its purpose within a nonfiction text. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts from Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. You'll examine how the text structure contributes to meaning in the text, and you'll analyze how the order of events and relationships between events add to the meaning as well.
Make sure to complete both parts. Click here to launch PART TWO.
Type: Original Student Tutorial