The student will determine explicit ideas and information in grade-level text, including but not limited to main idea, relevant supporting details, implied message, inferences, chronological order of events, summarizing, and paraphrasing;
Remarks
SS.4.C.1.1 | Describe how Florida's constitution protects the rights of citizens and provides for the structure, function, and purposes of state government. |
General Information
Subject Area: X-Reading/Language Arts (former standards - 2008)
Grade: 4
Strand: Reading Process
Standard: Reading Comprehension - The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend grade level text.
Date Adopted or Revised: 01/07
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes
Test Item Specifications
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Item Type(s):
This benchmark may be assessed using:
MC
item(s)
- Clarification :
The student will determine the main idea (stated or implied), locate relevant details and facts, draw logical conclusions, or make appropriate inferences within or across grade-level appropriate texts. In addition, students will identify chronological order (sequencing of events). - Content Limits :
Grade-level appropriate texts should include an identifiable main idea (stated or strongly implied) and relevant details from which students may draw logical conclusions or make appropriate inferences. In addition, texts may include a clear, identifiable chronological order (sequence of events).Paraphrasing should not be assessed.
Items may assess a student's ability to identify a strongly stated main idea.
- Content Focus :
Main Idea (stated or implied),
Relevant Details,
Conclusions/Inferences,
Chronological Order - Text Attributes :
Texts should be literary or informational.
Other stimuli may include, but are not limited to, illustrations with captions, graphics, and charts.
Texts should include a main idea (stated or implied), relevant details, and an identifiable chronological order that will enable students to draw logical conclusions and make appropriate inferences. - Distractor Attributes :
Distractors may include, but are not limited to- details that do not support the main idea;
- incorrect interpretations of the main idea that are too broad, too narrow, or are a specific fact;
- incorrect inferences or conclusions based on details found in the text;
- events that are drawn from the text and presented out of order; and
- plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text.
Note: Items should not assess a student’s ability to identify details of least importance when assessing a main idea statement.
Note: A main idea should be stated in a complete sentence.
Sample Test Items (3)
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question: The sample item below is based on “Learning to Sing” on page H–12.
Which is a way to improve your breathing for singing? - Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
- Test Item #: Sample Item 2
- Question: The sample item below is based on “Across the Blue Mountains” on page H–9.
What happens AFTER everyone loads the cart with supplies but BEFORE everyone gets lost? - Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
- Test Item #: Sample Item 3
- Question: The sample item below is based on “Across the Blue Mountains” on page G–8.
What happens AFTER everyone loads the cart with supplies but BEFORE everyone gets lost?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
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