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Grade 11 - Claim 2 - Target 4

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English Language Arts

Target 4

Compose Full Texts

Write full explanatory texts using a complete writing process attending to purpose and audience: organize ideas by stating a thesis and maintaining a focus/tone; develop a complex topic and subtopics, including elaboration and citing relevant supporting evidence from sources, with appropriate transitional strategies for coherence; and develop a conclusion that is appropriate to purpose and audience and follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulate implications or the significance of a topic).

Sample Item

Grade 11

Test

Claim 2

Writing

Students can produce effective writing for a range of purposes and audiences.

Grade

Grade 11

Clarifications

Performance Task (PT): In general, the PT should allow students to demonstrate deeper thinking and allow more integration of information from resources. Sources should cover the subject sufficiently enough to allow students to form...

Range Achievement Level Descriptors

Evidence Required

  • Evidence 1

    The student will write full explanatory texts using a complete writing process attending to purpose and audience: organize ideas by stating a thesis and maintaining a focus/tone; develop a complex topic and...

Item Guidelines

Depth of Knowledge

  • W-DOK4

    Higher-level thinking is central to Level 4. The standard at this level is a multi- paragraph composition that demonstrates synthesis and analysis of complex ideas or themes. There is evidence of a deep awareness of purpose and audience. For example,...

Allowable Item Types

  • Full Write

Stimuli

  • Passages

    Informational and literary nonfiction texts: Includes the subgenres of articles, essays, memoirs, speeches, interviews, primary and secondary accounts, how-to articles, and functional reading. Stimuli for research (four or five for Grade 11) should have some references and footnotes/in-text citations resembling authentic...

  • Text Complexity

    PT stimuli should follow the guidelines in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: English Language Arts & Literacy Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) and Performance Task (PT) Stimulus Specifications; however, the complexity of the stimuli, taken as a whole, should be at...

Key/Construct Relevant Vocabulary

Please be sure to bracket or footnote all key vocabulary that cannot be understood through surrounding context. Brackets should be used for short definitions (fewer than three words) of a word or term whereas...

Allowable Tools

Word processing tools including spell check

Accessibility

Students will be required to read short and long stimuli, interpret information from text and/or graphic sources, and use a mouse. Students with physical impairments may need to use an adapted mouse or a...

Development Notes

When there are two DOKs listed, DOK 3 is for machine- scored items and DOK 4 is for short text items.

Task Models

Task Model 13

  • Item Types

    Full Write

  • Depth of Knowledge

    W-DOK4

Target Evidence Statement

  • The student will write full explanatory texts using a complete writing process attending to purpose and audience: organize ideas by stating a thesis and maintaining a focus/tone; develop a complex topic and subtopics, including elaboration and citing relevant supporting evidence...

Task Description

Explanatory Writing: Create an explanatory writing assignment that flows naturally from the research scenario given in the Student Directions (see “Task Description” above). An explanatory assignment must provide the following information: A purpose for writing A description...

Scoring Rules

Click here for the Explanatory Full Writes rubrics.