Assessing the Complexity of Literacy Tasks
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Prose Literacy - Level 3

Level 3 questions and directives tend to require readers to identify a condition, reason or explanation. Matches are literal, synonymous, or require a low-level inference. Unlike Level 2 tasks, those at Level 3 often require the reader to identify and list multiple responses. Questions and directives at Level 3 tend to consist of several phrases, and the reader is required to supply requested information that will satisfy the conditional information in these phrases.

The following question has a rated difficulty of 362 on NALS.

(The stimulus article on the following page comprises 688 words at a seventhgrade reading level.)

List two things that Chen became involved in or has done to help resolve conflicts due to discrimination

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