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Sample Task: The author takes a strong position on voting rights for young people. Use information from the text to support your
response to the following.

*Requirements: Explain the author's position on voting. Explain how adopting such a position would affect young people like you.

Categories & Clusters of assessing Language Arts Literacy components of the NJ ASK, Grades 5, 6, and 7.

Working with Text or Interpreting Text
Interpreting text involves activities and strategies that contribute to reformulating meaning, including:

Developing Explanations and Extrapolation of Information

Developing Specific Purposes and Inferring Purposes

Following Directions

Paraphrasing/Vocabulary

Recognition of Purpose for Reading

Recognition of Central Idea or Theme

Recognition of Supporting Details

Recognition of Text Organization
Planning and Recognizing the Organization of Texts

Analyzing and Critiquing Text

Questioning, Clarifying and Predicting (Students must be able to pose or respond to

questions in ways that enhance their and others' understandings of the text.)

Prediction of Tentative Meanings and Make Judgments (They must predict tentative meanings of texts and plan texts as temporary thinking on their way to drawing conclusions or forming opinions.)

Drawing Conclusions and Literary Elements Textual Conventions. (These conclusions and opinions will eventually take on more formal expressions when students move to extending understanding of text. Through this process of analysis and critique, students will understand both the functions and nuances of textual conventions and literary elements.)

Extending Understanding of the Text

Students will be able to create original works. Some of these works are textual, more finished products that they can make available to specific audiences and/or for specific purposes.

Some extensions of understanding result in the reader appreciating a text or its features, considering other related texts, or interacting with others' related ideas, all of which extend literacy.

Some extensions of understanding will lead students to take action. This action will include problem-solving, making decisions, and creating an original work, which may lead to heightened social awareness and action.