2015 Released Items: Grade 9 End-of-Year Paired Text Set

The End-of-Year paired text set requires students to read two texts that are purposely paired. Students read the texts and answer questions about each text and about the texts as a pair.

The 2015 blueprint for the grade 9 paired text set includes six Evidence-Based Selected Response/Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response items. This document includes a complete paired text set from an online summative assessment 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:

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

PARCC Release Items Answer and Alignment Document ELA/Literacy Grade 9

Paired Text Set

EOY Text Type: Paired Passages (Literary pairing)

Passage(s): from "The Trip of Le Horla"; from Five Weeks in a Balloon

Item Code Answer(s) Standards/Evidence Statement Alignment

6218_A Item Type: EBSR Part A: B Part B: A

RL 9.1.2 RL 9.4.1 L 9.4.1 6219_A Item Type: TECR

Part A:

Part B:

RL 9.1.2 RL 9.2.1 RL 9.2.2

6221_A Item Type: EBSR Part A: D Part B: B

RL 9.1.2 RL 9.3.4

6224_A Item Type: EBSR Part A: D Part B: C

RL 9.1.2 RL 9.3.3

6948_A Item Type: EBSR Part A: C Part B: D, E

RL 9.1.2 RL 9.3.2

6225_A Item Type: EBSR Part A: C Part B: C, D, E

RL 9.1.2 RL 9.3.2

6218_A

6219_A

6221_A

6224_A

6948_A

6225_A