Standard #: LAFS.7.RI.3.9 (Archived Standard)


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Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.


General Information

Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: 7
Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes

Test Item Specifications

    Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , MS , MC , SHT item(s)
    N/A

    Assessment Limits :
    Items should ask about both texts but may focus on one more than the other. Items should focus on key information, evidence, and facts. Items should focus on the differences between the two texts rather than the similarities.
    Text Types :
    Items assessing this standard may be used with two 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 two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.

    Sample Response Mechanisms

    Selectable Hot Text

    • Requires the student to select words or phrases from the text to support an analysis of how the authors present key information, emphasize evidence, or interpret facts.
    • Requires the student to select a comparison of the two texts and then to select how the differing presentations of information impact each text.
    • Requires the student to select words or phrases from the text to show a difference between the two texts and then to select an analysis of the comparison. 

    Multiple Choice

    • Requires the student to select an analysis of how the authors present key information, emphasize evidence, or interpret facts.
    • Requires the student to select explicit or implicit details that support an analysis of how the authors present key information, emphasize evidence, or interpret facts. 

    Multiselect

    • Requires the student to select multiple explicit or implicit details that support an analysis of how the authors present key information, emphasize evidence, or interpret facts.
    • Requires the student to select multiple analyses of how the authors present key information, emphasize evidence, or interpret facts. 

    Table Match

    • Requires the student to complete a table by comparing how two or more authors present key information, emphasize evidence, or interpret facts.


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1000010: M/J Intensive Reading 1 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
1000020: M/J Intensive Reading and Career Planning (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2019, 2019 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
1001040: M/J Language Arts 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
1001050: M/J Language Arts 2 Advanced (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current))
1002010: M/J Language Arts 2 Through ESOL (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
1002180: M/J English Language Development (MC) (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
1008040: M/J Reading 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021 (course terminated))
1008050: M/J Reading 2, Advanced (Specifically in versions: 2013 - 2015, 2015 - 2021 (course terminated))
1100000: M/J Library Skills/Information Literacy (MC) (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
1700010: M/J Research 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
1700060: M/J Career Research and Decision Making (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2019, 2019 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
7810012: Access M/J Language Arts 2  (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
1002181: M/J Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL (Reading) (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))


Related Resources

Original Student Tutorial

Name Description
Food For Thought: Analyzing Authors' Approaches

Learn how different authors can approach the same topic in very different ways. In this interactive tutorial, you'll read several informational texts about how insects are a commonly eaten food in certain parts of the world. You'll practice identifying the central ideas of these texts as well as the authors' use of evidence. 

Student Resources

Original Student Tutorial

Name Description
Food For Thought: Analyzing Authors' Approaches:

Learn how different authors can approach the same topic in very different ways. In this interactive tutorial, you'll read several informational texts about how insects are a commonly eaten food in certain parts of the world. You'll practice identifying the central ideas of these texts as well as the authors' use of evidence. 



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