Assessing the Complexity of Literacy Tasks
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Prose Literacy - Level 5

Some tasks at this level require the reader to search for information in dense text that contains a number of plausible distractors. Tasks at Level 5 may ask readers to identify abstract information including contrast, equivalence, theme, or summary. These tasks also require that the reader generate information using specialized background knowledge. Distractors for both requested and given information can be found in the same paragraph as the answer.

The following question has a rated difficulty of 410 on NALS.

Identify and summarize the two kinds of challenges that attorneys use while selecting members of a jury?

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