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Sample Item
Selected Response Item for Grade 6

Standard 3.0 Comprehension of Literary Text

Topic A. Comprehension of Literary Text

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

Objective a. Identify and explain how organizational aids such as the title of the book, story, poem, or play, titles of chapters, subtitles, subheadings contribute to meaning

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

Read the play 'The Weeping Willow Wedding Day'. Then answer the following.

Another good title for this play is

  1. Falling in Trouble
  2. Practicing a Wedding
  3. Washing Paper Plates
  4. Swinging from Branches

Correct Answer
A. Falling in Trouble
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