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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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MC
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OR
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SHT
,
DDHT
item(s)
- Assessment Limits :
Items may be overarching questions about the structure/development of the entire text or about specific structural elements. Items should ask the student to analyze the author’s ideas or claims in the context of particular structural decisions made by the author. However, a two-part item may ask the student to determine the structure used and then analyze how it develops the ideas or claims. - 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 way in which an author develops or refines a given claim or idea through structural decisions.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
- Requires the student to select portions of the text that develop or refine a given idea or claim.
Drag-and-Drop Hot Text
- Requires the student to drag into the appropriate box(es) in a chart descriptions of the function of different text sections.
Multiple Choice
- Requires the student to select the correct analysis of how an author develops or refines ideas or claims.
- Requires the student to select a portion of the text that develops or refines a given idea or claim from the text.
Open Response
- Requires the student to explain how an author develops or refines the ideas or claims in a text in one or two sentences.
Multiselect
- Requires the student to select multiple sentences from different points of the text that contribute to a given claim.
Task Demand
Analyze the way in which an author develops or refines a given claim or idea through structural decisions.
Sample Response Mechanisms
EBSR
- Requires the student to select a statement from the text that refines the author’s ideas and then to select an explanation of how it refines those ideas.
Table Match
- Requires the student to complete a table by matching particular sentences, a paragraph, or larger portions of text to a concept they refine.
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Lesson Plans
Original Student Tutorials
Teaching Idea
Unit/Lesson Sequence
Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades 6-12
In this interactive tutorial, you'll practice determining an author's claim and how it's supported by specific details. You'll read several nonfiction texts, including excerpts by Sojourner Truth and Harriet Beecher Stowe. You'll analyze how each author effectively expresses her claim.
Read excerpts from Maya Angelou's book of essays, Letter to My Daughter. In this interactive English Language Arts tutorial, you'll identify an important idea in each excerpt and examine how the author develops the important idea throughout the section of text.
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorials
Read excerpts from Maya Angelou's book of essays, Letter to My Daughter. In this interactive English Language Arts tutorial, you'll identify an important idea in each excerpt and examine how the author develops the important idea throughout the section of text.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
In this interactive tutorial, you'll practice determining an author's claim and how it's supported by specific details. You'll read several nonfiction texts, including excerpts by Sojourner Truth and Harriet Beecher Stowe. You'll analyze how each author effectively expresses her claim.
Type: Original Student Tutorial