SBAC Achievement Level Descriptors, Grade 4 - ND Curriculum ...

GRADE 4Overall Claim: Students candemonstrate progresstoward college and careerreadiness in Englishlanguage arts and literacy.CLAIM 1: Students can readclosely and analytically tocomprehend a range ofincreasingly complexliterary and informationaltexts.Target 1. KEY DETAILS:Identify explicit details andimplicit information fromthe text to support answersor inferences provided bythe item.Target 2. CENTRAL IDEAS:Identify or summarizecentral ideas/key events.Target 3. WORDMEANINGS: Determineintended meanings ofwords, including words withmultiple meanings(academic/tier 2 words),based on context, wordrelationships (e.g.,synonyms), word structure(e.g., common Greek orLatin roots, affixes), or useof resources (e.g.,dictionary, thesaurus).Demonstrates minimal command of theknowledge and skills associated withcollege and career readiness.Level 1 students should be able to readto comprehend a limited range ofliterary and informational text at thelower range of complexity and to useminimal textual evidence todemonstrate thinking.Level 1 students should be able toidentify details and information from thetext to minimally support answers orinferences provided by the item.Level 1 students should be able to, withsufficient support, identify or summarizecentral ideas/key events.Level 1 students should be able to, withsufficient support, determine theintended meanings of words, includingwords with multiple meanings, wordsbased on context, word relationships, orrely heavily on use of resources.Demonstrates partial command of the knowledgeand skills associated with college and careerreadiness.Level 2 students should be able to read closely andanalytically to comprehend a range of literary andinformational texts of moderate complexity and touse textual evidence that demonstrates limitedcritical thinking.Literary TextsLevel 2 students should be able to identify detailsand information from the text to partially supportanswers or inferences provided by the item.Level 2 students should be able to, with minimalsupport, identify or summarize central ideas/keyevents.DRAFTLevel 2 students should be able to, with minimalsupport, determine intended meanings of words,including words with multiple meanings, wordsbased on context, word relationships, wordstructure, or use of resources.Demonstrates sufficient command of theknowledge and skills associated with collegeand career readiness.Level 3 students should be able to readclosely and analytically to comprehend arange of increasingly complex literary andinformational texts and use textual evidenceto demonstrate critical thinking.Level 3 students should be able to identifyexplicit details and implicit information fromthe text to support answers or inferencesprovided by the item.Level 3 students should be able to identify orsummarize central ideas/key events.Level 3 students should be able to determineintended meanings of words, including wordswith multiple meanings, words based oncontext, word relationships, word structure,or use of resources.Demonstrates deep command of theknowledge and skills associated with collegeand career readiness.Level 4 students should be able to readclosely and analytically to comprehend arange of highly complex literary andinformational texts and use textual evidenceeffectively to demonstrate complex criticalthinking.Level 4 students should be able to identifyand explain explicit details and implicitinformation from the text to support answersand inferences provided by the item.Level 4 students should be able toconsistently identify and summarize centralideas/key events.Level 4 students should be able todetermine intended meanings of abovegrade-levelwords, including words withmultiple meanings, words based on context,word relationships, word structure, or use ofresources.13