2015 Released Items: Grade 8 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 8 Literary Analysis Task includes six Evidence-Based Selected
Response/Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response items as well as one Prose Constructed Response prompt. This
document includes a complete Literary Analysis Task from an online summative assessment.
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Answer key and standards alignment
PDFs of each item with the associated text(s)
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Sample scored student responses with 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
Note:
Item 5626_A represents an item type no longer being developed for the PARCC ELA/literacy summative assessment.
PARCC Release Items Answer and Alignment
ELA/Literacy Grade 8
Literary Analysis Task
Task: Literary Analysis (LAT)
Text(s): Passage from Oliver Twist; passage from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Item Code Answer(s)
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
5624_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: C
RL 8.1.1
RL 8.4.1
RL 8.1.2
5625_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: A, E
RL 8.1.1
RL 8.3.1
5626_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: D
Part B: B
Part C: D
RL 8.1.1
RL 8.3.2
RL 8.4.1
L 8.5.3
5885_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: B
RL 8.1.1
RL 8.4.1
RL 8.3.1
5629_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: B, F
RL 8.1.2
RL 8.3.3
5630_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: D
RL 8.1.2
RL 8.3.3
5632
Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 6-11 Scoring Rubric
RL 8.1.1
RL 8.1.2
RL 8.3.3
W 8.2
W 8.4—W 8.10
Item: 5624_A
Associated Text: “Oliver Twist”
Item: 5625_A
Associated Text: “Oliver Twist”
Item: 5626_A
Associated Text: “Oliver Twist”
Item: 5885_A
Associated Text: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
Item: 5629_A
Associated Text: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
Item: 5630_A
Associated Text: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
Item: 5632
Associated Texts: “Oliver Twist” and “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”