221 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Shifting Sands: Submerged castle turret Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to analyze, or think through, information that is shown graphically or visually. Pictures or illustrations can visually represent the information presented in the text of the passage or can add information that can be used to clarify the text of the passage.... 222 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Shifting Sands: The sand dune system Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to recognize and use reading strategies. To answer this question correctly, students need to use two reading strategies: recalling and summarizing.... 223 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Shifting Sands: High profile Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to use context clues, or the words and sentences around words, to define words they do not know. This is a sample mulitiple choice test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 224 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Shifting Sands: Theories Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to explain the development of key points, or important ideas, in a passage. To do this, students need to determine which ideas are theories and which ideas are solutions.... 225 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Shifting Sands: Fulgurites Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to read and think about the details that authors use to explain or argue ideas. Students think about the relationship of details and facts to the main idea: whether they support the main idea or whether they add interesting information that does not directly develop the main idea.... 226 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Shifting Sands: Passage organization Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to identify the way informational text is organized. In this passage, it is organized by problem and solution.... 227 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Shifting Sands: Far-reaching effects Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to determine the main topics of the passage and identify the author’s purpose for writing. To answer this question correctly, students need to consider the entire passage and determine the author’s main purpose for writing it.... 228 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Homemade Bread: What the narrator learns from her grandmother Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to describe lessons learned by the narrator from the grandmother. It is important for the reader to go back into the text to not only give the four references but to describe what the narrator learned.... 229 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Living Treasure: Classifying new life forms Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to explain how scientists classify new life forms, citing specific information from the text to support their response. Students must rely on implicit details from the text to construct a satisfactory answer.... 230 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Living Treasure: The word "known" Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to analyze an author’s implicit viewpoint by analyzing the text and they way in which the word is used. In this passage, the quotes around the word known are used to express irony.... |