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English Language Arts

Target 2

Central Ideas

Identify or determine a theme or central idea from details in the text, or summarize the text.

Sample Item

Grade 5

Test

Claim 1

Reading

Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.

Grade

Grade 5

Standards

RL-1RL-2

Standards

  • RL-1

    Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences...

  • RL-2

    Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how...

Clarifications

Items may assess a theme or key event in the text. Items will not ask students to summarize the entire text; students will summarize a key event(s) or idea(s). Item may assess the key details in...

Range Achievement Level Descriptors

Evidence Required

  • 1

    The student will determine a theme or central idea/main idea of a text using supporting evidence.

Item Guidelines

Depth of Knowledge

  • R-DOK2

    Level 2 includes the engagement of some mental processing beyond recalling or reproducing a response; it requires both comprehension and subsequent processing of text or portions of text. Intersentence analysis of inference is required. Some important concepts are covered but...

  • R-DOK3

    Deep knowledge becomes more of a focus at Level 3. Students are encouraged to go beyond the text; however, they are still required to show understanding of the ideas in the text. Students may be encouraged to explain, generalize, or...

Allowable Item Types

  • Multiple Choice, single correct response
  • Multi-Select, multiple correct response
  • Evidence-based Select Response, two-part multiple choice response (EBSR);
  • Hot Text, select text
  • Short Text, constructed response (WR)

Stimuli

  • Passages

    Texts will contain one or more themes, central ideas/main ideas, and/or key events. Refer to Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: English Language Arts & Literacy Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) and Performance Task (PT) Stimulus Specifications for more information on literary text types....

  • Dual-Text Stimuli

    When a dual-text set contains one literary and one informational text, the literary text (text #1) is the primary focus, and the set of items must include items from the literary stimulus as well as items written across both...

Accessibility

Refer to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines for information on accessibility.

Task Models

Task Model 1

  • Item Types

    Multiple Choice, single correct response

  • Depth of Knowledge

    R-DOK2

Target Evidence Statement

  • The student will determine a theme or central idea/main idea of a text using supporting evidence.

Task Description

The item stem will pose a question that requires the student to 1) determine a theme or central idea/main idea, 2) identify a key event or idea that supports a theme or central idea/main...

Appropriate Stems

Which sentence best [shows/tells/describes] the [theme/main idea] of the passage? Which sentence best [shows/tells/describes] the [theme/main idea] of the [story/poem] told by the [narrator/speaker]? Which sentence best [shows/tells/describes] [the author’s/character’s name’s] message about [provide theme/main idea]? Read...

Appropriate Stems for Dual-Stimuli

What [theme/main idea] can be found in both [title text #1] and [title text #2]? NOTE: This stem can only be used with two literary passages. What [theme/main idea] from [title text #1] is made clear...

Scoring Rules

Correct response: 1 point; Incorrect response: 0 points