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41 Assessment Guide for Educators: RLA Chapter 4: Performance Level Descriptors ideas, or reinforce an author’s purpose, at a satisfactory level – Analyze how the structure of a paragraph, section, or passage shapes meaning, emphasizes key ideas, or supports an author’s purpose – Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in texts, at a satisfactory level – Infer an author’s implicit as well as explicit purposes based on details in a text, at a satisfactory level – Analyze how an author uses rhetorical techniques to advance his or her point of view or achieve a specific purpose • Using Evidence to Understand, Analyze, and Create Arguments – Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in a text at a satisfactory level – Summarize details and ideas in text at a satisfactory level – Make sentence-level inferences about details that support main ideas at a satisfactory level – Infer implied main ideas in paragraphs and whole texts at a satisfactory level – Determine which details support a main idea at a satisfactory level – Identify a theme, or identify which element(s) in a text support a theme at a satisfactory level – Make evidence-based generalizations or hypotheses based on details in text, including clarifications, extensions, or applications of main ideas to new situations, at a satisfactory level – Draw conclusions or make generalizations that require synthesis of multiple main ideas at a satisfactory level – Identify specific pieces of evidence an author uses in support of claims or conclusions at a satisfactory level – Evaluate the relevance and sufficiency of evidence offered in support of a claim at a satisfactory level