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Grade 3 - Claim 2 - Target 1b

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English Language Arts

Target 1b

Revise Brief Texts

Revise one or more paragraphs demonstrating specific narrative techniques (use of dialogue, description), chronology, appropriate transitional strategies for coherence, or authors’ craft appropriate to purpose (closure, detailing characters, plot, setting, or an event).

Sample Item

Grade 3

Test

Claim 2

Writing

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

Grade

Grade 3

Standards

W-3aW-3bW-3cW-3d

Standards

  • W-3a

    Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

  • W-3b

    Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

  • W-3c

    Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.

  • W-3d

    Provide a sense of closure.

Clarifications

This target asks students to revise, not edit, which is Target 9. Items for this target focus on revision at the sentence or paragraph level. Items asking for students to replace or add words/phrases for...

Range Achievement Level Descriptors

Evidence Required

  • Evidence 1

    (Organization) The student will use information provided in a stimulus to revise organized narratives that engage...

  • Evidence 2

    (Elaboration) The student will use information provided in a stimulus to revise narratives that apply narrative...

Item Guidelines

Depth of Knowledge

  • W-DOK2

    Level 2 requires some mental processing. At this level students are engaged in first draft writing or brief extemporaneous speaking for a limited number of purposes and audiences. Students are beginning to connect ideas using a simple organizational structure. For...

Allowable Item Types

  • Multiple Choice, single correct response
  • Multi-Select, multiple correct response
  • Hot Text, select text

Stimuli

  • Passages

    Stimuli for Target 1b can be shorter, not exceeding 150 words. Appropriate stimuli for this grade could include a student’s short story, a narrative of a family trip, a narrative of an experience with a friend, a narrative of an event...

  • Text Complexity

    The stimulus must be appropriately complex for the skill being assessed. The stimulus must be consistent with the purpose and intent of the target and standard being measured. The stimulus will read as would authentic student writing for the targeted grade....

Accessibility

Students will be required to read brief narrative texts (150 - 200 words) and write one or more paragraphs. Students with physical impairments may need to use an adapted mouse or a computer with...

Task Models

Task Model 2

  • Item Types

    Multiple Choice, single correct response

  • Depth of Knowledge

    W-DOK2

Target Evidence Statement

  • (Organization) The student will use information provided in a stimulus to revise organized narratives that engage and orient the reader by providing an opening that establishes a situation providing an opening that introduces a narrator and character(s) organizing the narrative with a sequence...

  • (Elaboration) The student will use information provided in a stimulus to revise narratives that apply narrative techniques such as including dialogue to convey events/experiences including descriptive details to convey events/experiences identifying details that should be deleted because they are inconsistent with the rest...

Task Description

Target 1b items pose a question about a revision to the stimulus that improves some specified (underlined) aspect of the text’s development or organization. The Lead-in will provide information about the stimulus and the...

Stimulus

Text should be grade level. Text will be brief– one to two paragraphs. Complexity will depend upon the type of revision being assessed. Text will be a model of good writing. Text should not...

Appropriate Stems

Note: All stimuli/stems should indicate that students are revising a draft for a specified reason. ORGANIZATION ITEMS LEAD-IN: A student is writing a <writing form> about <topic> for [teacher/class, etc.]. The student wants to revise the...

Scoring Rules

Correct response = 1 point; other = 0 points.