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:
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Answer key and standards alignment
PDFs of each item with the associated text(s)
Additional related materials not included in this document:
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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
RL 3.1.1
L 3.4.1
RL 3.4.1
VH010800
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: A
VF651214
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: D
Part B: A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: A
RL 3.1.1
Item Type: TECR
RL 3.1.1
VF651202
VF651218
VF651241
RL 3.3.1
RL 3.1.1
RL 3.2.1
RL 3.1.1
RL 3.4.1
L 3.4.1
RL 3.2.1
VF651246
VF651235
VF651223
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: D
Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 3 Scoring Rubric
Item Type: EBSR (paper form—additional item)
Part A: B
Part B: D
RL 3.1.1
RL 3.2.2
RL 3.1.1
RL 3.7.1
W 3.2
W 3.4-3.10
RL 3.1.1
RL 3.1.2
RL 3.2.1
Item: VH010800
Associated Text:
“Coyote and Fire”
Item: VF651214
Associated Text:
“Coyote and Fire”
Item: VF651202
Associated Text:
“Coyote and Fire”
Item: VF651218
Associated Text: “How Big Bear Stuck
to the Sky”
Item: VF651241
Associated Text: “How Big Bear Stuck
to the Sky”
Item: VF651246
Associated Text : “How Big Bear
Stuck to the Sky”
Item: VF651235
Associated Texts: “Coyote and Fire” and “How Big Bear Stuck
to the Sky”
Item: VF651223
Associated Text: “How Big Bear Stuck
to the Sky”