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Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, Joy Hakim’s A History of US, and Colin A. Ronan’s “Telescopes,” and generally demonstrate limited but developing proficiency with the following skills:  \nAnalyzing and Creating Text Features and Technique  \n• Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts ata limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• 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, at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Analyze the roles that details play in texts at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Analyze how meaning or tone is affected when one word is replaced with another at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Analyze the structural relationship between adjacent sections of text at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Analyze transitional language and determine how it functions in a text at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \nUsing Evidence to Understand, Analyze, and Create Arguments  \n• Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in a text at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Summarize details and ideas in a text at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Make sentence-level inferences about details that support main ideas at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Determine which details support a main idea at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Identify a theme, or identify which element(s) in a text support a theme at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \nApplying Knowledge of English Language Conventions and Usage  \n• Edit to correct errors involving frequently confused words at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n[GEDtestingservice.com](GEDtestingservice.com) • [GED.com](GED.com)  \nGED® and GED Testing Service® are registered trademarks of the American Council on Education. They may not be used or reproduced without the express written permission of ACE or GED Testing Service. The GED® and GED Testing Service® brands are administered by GED Testing Service LLC under license from the American Council on Education.  \nCopyright © 2016 GED Testing Service LLC. All rights reserved.  \nGED® Test: RLA Performance Level Descriptors What Your Score Means: Level 1 — Below Passing  \n• Edit to correct errors in straightforward subject-verb agreement at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Edit to eliminate run-on sentences, fused sentences, or sentence fragments at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \n• Edit to ensure correct use of punctuation at a limited and/or inconsistent level  \nIn order to progress to the Pass/High School Equivalency level, test-takers need to:  \n1) strengthen the skills listed in the Below Passing level and apply them to texts at amore challenging level of complexity, such as Sandra Cisneros’“Eleven,” John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley: In Search of America, and Donald Mackay’s The Building of Manhattan, with a particular focus on improving the following skills:  \n! Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts  \n! Analyze the roles that details play in complex literary or informational texts  \n! Analyze the structural relationship between adjacent sections of text  \n! Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in a text  \n! Determine which details support a main idea  \n! Edit to ensure correct use of punctuation  \nand  \n2) develop the following additional skills:  \n! Order sequences of events in texts  \n! Determine the meaning of words or phrases as they are used in a text, including  \ndet","cbCaivgUkmDQFw3B","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivgUkmDQFw3B","pdf",962812,34,"English","# Performance Level Descriptors\n## What Your Score Means: Level 1 — Below Passing\n## What Your Score Means: Level 2 — Pass/High School Equivalency","[{\"question\":\"What skills are emphasized in the GED RLA performance descriptors for Level 1 (Below Passing)?\",\"answer\":\"Level 1 focuses on limited and developing ability to make inferences, analyze relationships and details in texts, interpret how tone or meaning changes with word replacement and transitions, and edit for frequently confused words and basic punctuation and sentence-structure issues.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Pass/High School Equivalency (Level 2) performance level expand skills?\",\"answer\":\"Level 2 requires satisfactory proficiency in the skills from Level 1 while emphasizing the ability to comprehend and analyze more challenging passages, including stronger text sequencing, inference, evidence-based reasoning, and editing for punctuation and other language conventions.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of editing and language convention skills are mentioned in the descriptors?\",\"answer\":\"The document specifies editing for frequently confused words, subject-verb agreement, elimination of run-on sentences/fused sentences/fragments, correct punctuation, capitalization use, transitional word effectiveness, and correction of misplaced modifiers and logical word order.\"}]","GED® Test: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Performance Level Descriptors | PDF",86]