2015 Released Items: Grade 3 Performance-Based Assessment Literary Analysis Task

The Literary Analysis Task requires students to read two literary texts that are purposely paired. Students read the texts,

answer questions for each text and for the texts as a pair, and then write an analytic essay.

The 2015 blueprint for PARCC’s grade 3 Literary Analysis Task includes six Evidence-Based Selected

Response/Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response items as well as one Prose Constructed Response prompt. A

complete Literary Analysis Task from an online summative assessment form is included in this document, as well as

additional items from a paper form and/or online form.

Included in this document:

Answer key and standards alignment

PDFs of each item with the associated text(s)

Additional related materials not included in this document:

Sample scored student responses with annotations and practice papers

PARCC Scoring Rubric for Prose Constructed Response Items

Guide to English Language Arts/Literacy Released Items: Understanding Scoring

PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment: General Scoring Rules for the 2015 Summative Assessment

PARCC PBA Release Items Answer and Alignment Document ELA/Literacy: Grade 3

Task: Literary Analysis (LAT) Passage(s): Coyote and Fire: How Big Bear Stuck to the Sky Item Code Answer(s) Standards/Evidence

Statement Alignment VH010800 Item Type: EBSR

Part A: C Part B: A

RL 3.1.1 L 3.4.1 RL 3.4.1

VF651214 Item Type: EBSR Part A: C Part B: A

RL 3.1.1 RL 3.3.1

VF651202 Item Type: EBSR Part A: D Part B: A

RL 3.1.1

RL 3.2.1

VF651218 Item Type: EBSR Part A: A Part B: A

RL 3.1.1

RL 3.4.1

L 3.4.1

VF651241 Item Type: TECR RL 3.1.1

RL 3.2.1

VF651246 Item Type: EBSR Part A: B Part B: D

RL 3.1.1

RL 3.2.2

VF651235 Item Type: PCR Refer to Grade 3 Scoring Rubric

RL 3.1.1

RL 3.7.1 W 3.2

W 3.4-3.10

VF651223 Item Type: EBSR (paper form—additional item) Part A: B Part B: D

RL 3.1.1 RL 3.1.2 RL 3.2.1

VH010800

VF651214

VF651202

VF651218

VF651241

VF651246

VF651235

VF651223