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6 Assessment Guide for Educators: RLA Chapter 1: Assessment Targets Passage selection and test question development for the reading comprehension component of the GED® RLA test reflect these two high-level standards. The texts span a range of complexity, including texts at the career- and college-readiness level. The targets and indicators in the following tables are derived from nationally recognized career- and college- readiness curricular standards. Assessment targets The assessment targets for all four content areas provide a complete description of the skills and knowledge that are measured on the GED® test. Evidence strongly indicates that proficiency with the core skills identified in the assessment targets is predictive of success in a wide range of career and college pathways. Reading Assessment Targets1 Range of Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Levels2 Common Core Connection: R�29 Determine central ideas or themes of texts and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. R.2.1 Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in text. R.2.2 Summarize details and ideas in text. R.2.3 Make sentence level inferences about details that support main ideas. R.2.4 Infer implied main ideas in paragraphs or whole texts. R.2.5 Determine which detail(s) support(s) a main idea. R.2.6 Identify a theme, or identify which element(s) in a text support a theme. R.2.7 Make evidence based generalizations or hypotheses based on details in text, including clarifications, extensions, or applications of main ideas to new situations. R.2.8 Draw conclusions or make generalizations that require synthesis of multiple main ideas in text.
1-2 2 2-3 2-3 1-3 1-3 2-3 2-3 Common Core Connection: R�3 Analyze how individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. R.3.1 Order sequences of events in texts. R.3.2 Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts. R.3.3 Analyze relationships within texts, including how events are important in relation to plot or conflict; how people, ideas, or events are connected, developed, or distinguished; how events contribute to theme or relate to key ideas; or how a setting or context shapes structure and meaning. R.3.4 Infer relationships between ideas in a text (e.g., an implicit cause and effect, parallel, or contrasting relationship. R.3.5 Analyze the roles that details play in complex literary or informational texts. 1-2 2 2-3
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