Assessing the Complexity of Literacy Tasks Rating Guide 
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Type of Information P     D


Use the chart below to rate the ‘type of information’ factor in prose and document processing tasks

Type of Information

 Rating
person, animal, place (noun, not relationship), thing 1
amounts, times, attributes, types, actions, locations 2
manner, goal, purpose, alternative, referent for a pronoun, predicate adjective 3
cause, effect, reason, result, similarity, explanation 4
equivalence, difference, theme or pattern. 5

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