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Sample Item
Selected Response Item for Grade 3

Standard 3.0 Comprehension of Literary Text

Topic A. Comprehension of Literary Text

Indicator 2. Use text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts

Objective c. Identify and explain how informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation keys, transition words, end notes, works cited, other information aids encountered in informational texts contribute to meaning

Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text

Read the poem 'When You Can Read'. Then answer the following.

The definitions for Kalamazoo and Idaho most help a reader understand that reading helps with

  1. map skills
  2. capital letters
  3. spelling skills
  4. rhyming words

Correct Answer
A. map skills
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