Reading Domain Task Types Flashcards
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Which ELPAC Reading task type is specifically designed to measure a student's ability to synthesize information from more than one source?
Answer: Read and Compare Texts
The 'Read and Compare Texts' task type is designed to measure synthesis skills by requiring students to analyze connections across multiple passages.
A student reads a fictional story about a girl who moves to a new city and answers questions about how she feels. Which ELPAC skill is being assessed?
Answer: Understanding character's perspective and feelings in a literary text
Identifying a character's feelings and perspective is a core literary text comprehension skill tested in the ELPAC Reading domain.
On the ELPAC, when a reading task uses a glossary sidebar to define difficult words, this is an example of:
Answer: An embedded language support scaffold
Glossary sidebars are embedded scaffolds provided to support English learners in accessing grade-level text without penalizing vocabulary gaps.
A student reads a passage about the American Revolution and answers: 'What happened after the Boston Tea Party?' This question type is best described as:
Answer: Sequential / chronological comprehension
Questions asking what happened after a specific event test sequential or chronological comprehension, a text structure skill in ELPAC Reading.
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the ELPAC Reading domain overall?
Answer: To measure the English reading proficiency of English learners for California reclassification decisions
The ELPAC Reading domain measures English reading proficiency to inform placement and reclassification decisions for English learners in California schools.
A student reads an article with headings, subheadings, and bold terms and answers questions about the article's organization. Which comprehension skill is targeted?
Answer: Identifying text features of informational text
Recognizing how text features like headings and bold terms organize informational text is a key ELPAC Reading skill for non-fiction comprehension.
In ELPAC Reading, a question asks: 'Which detail from the passage best supports the author's main idea?' This is an example of which skill?
Answer: Identifying supporting evidence / text-based details
Selecting a detail that supports the main idea is a text evidence skill, one of the core comprehension targets in ELPAC Reading tasks.