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39 Assessment Guide for Educators: RLA Chapter 4: Performance Level Descriptors In order to progress to the Pass/High School Equivalency level, test-takers need to:
- strengthen the skills listed in the Below Passing level and apply them to texts at a more challenging level of complexity, such as Sandra Cisneros’ “Eleven, ” John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley: In Search of America, and Donald Mackay’s The Building of Manhattan, with a particular focus on improving the following skills: – Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts – Analyze the roles that details play in complex literary or informational texts – Analyze the structural relationship between adjacent sections of text – Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in a text – Determine which details support a main idea – Edit to ensure correct use of punctuation and
- develop the following additional skills: – Order sequences of events in texts – Determine the meaning of words or phrases as they are used in a text, including determining connotative and figurative meanings from context – Analyze the impact of specific words, phrases, or figurative language in text, with a focus on an author’s intent to convey information or construct an argument – Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of ideas – Determine an author’s point of view or purpose of a text – Infer an author’s implicit as well as explicit purposes based on details in a text – Analyze how an author uses rhetorical techniques to advance his or her point of view or achieve a specific purpose – Infer implied main ideas in paragraphs and whole texts – Draw conclusions or make generalizations that require synthesis of multiple main ideas in text – Edit to eliminate dangling or misplaced modifiers or illogical word order – Edit to correct errors in subject-verb or pronoun-antecedent agreement in more complicated situations – Edit to ensure effective use of transitional words, conjunctive adverbs, and other words and phrases that support logic and clarity – Edit to ensure correct use of capitalization