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Assessment of Reading, Writing and Mathematics: Primary Division

Released 2012 Assessment: Language 1, Reading

Item-Specific Rubrics and

Sample Student Responses with Annotations

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Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 5

Q5: Explain why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8. Use details from the text to support your answer.

Code

Descriptor

B

• blank: nothing written or drawn in the space provided

I

• Illegible: cannot be read; completely crossed out / erased; not written in English • Irrelevant content: does not attempt assigned question • Off topic: no relationship of written work to the question Typical responses: • do not attempt to answer the question OR • restate the question

10

Response attempts to explain why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8. Response either: • answers an aspect of the question OR • does not refer to the reading selection OR • provides inaccurate support.

20

Response indicates a partial understanding of why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8. Response provides: • irrelevant support from the reading selection OR • vague support from the reading selection OR • limited support.

The response usually requires the reader to connect the support to what it is intended to prove.

30

Response indicates an understanding of why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8. Response includes: • some accurate and relevant support and • some vague or underdeveloped support. The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and what it is intended to prove.

40

Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8 and provides specific and relevant support.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 5

Code 10

Annotation: Response attempts to explain why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8 but provides inaccurate support (e.g., …because a nut hitted her helmet).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 5

Code 20

Annotation: Response indicates a partial understanding of why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8 by providing vague support from the reading selection (e.g., …because she was happy she was wearing a helmet because she would have hurt herself). The response requires the reader to connect the support to why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 5

Code 30

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding of why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8 by including some accurate and relevant support (e.g., …she didn’t get hurt on her head because she wore her helmet when she rode her bike…) and some vague or underdeveloped support (e.g., …when those objects hit her head…). The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 5

Code 40

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why Deedee smiles at the end of paragraphs 7 and 8 (e.g., …because…she says I wish I could take off this sweaty helmet….But because of her helmet she was protected…) and provides specific and relevant support (e.g., ….she was protected from the acorn in paragraph 7 and the low-hanging branches in paragraph 8).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 6

Q6: Explain why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13. Use details from the text and your own ideas to support your answer.

Code

Descriptor

B

• blank: nothing written or drawn in the space provided

I

• Illegible: cannot be read; completely crossed out / erased; not written in English • Irrelevant content: does not attempt assigned question • Off topic: no relationship of written work to the question Typical responses: • do not attempt to answer the question OR • restate the question

10

Response attempts to explain why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13. Response either: • answers an aspect of the question OR • does not refer to the reading selection OR • provides inaccurate support.

20

Response indicates a partial understanding of why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13. Response provides: • irrelevant support from the reading selection OR • vague support from the reading selection OR • limited support.

The response usually requires the reader to connect the support to what it is intended to prove.

30

Response indicates an understanding of why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13. Response includes: • some accurate and relevant support and • some vague or underdeveloped support. The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and what it is intended to prove.

40

Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13 and provides specific and relevant support.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 6

Code 10

Annotation: Response attempts to explain why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13 but does not refer to the reading selection (e.g., …because she was a safe girl).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 6

Code 20

Annotation: Response indicates a partial understanding of why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13 by providing limited support (e.g., …because her name ends with dee and she had a done a very safe choice so she put it to-gether and made safe-dee). The response requires the reader to connect the support to why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!”

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 6

Code 30

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding of why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13 by including some accurate and relevant support (e.g., …she was wearing her helmet when she fell off her bike…) and some vague or underdeveloped support (e.g., …and it was a good decision that she wore her helmet…because she’s safe). The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!”

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Short Narrative

A Good Decision – Question 6

Code 40

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why Deedee says “From now on, just call me ‘Safe-dee’!” in paragraph 13 (e.g., …she relized the helmet helped her…) and provides specific and relevant support (e.g., …when Mr. Green was pulling his car out of his garage, Deedee…on gravel and fell …she wanted to call herself “Safe-dee” because “Safe-dee” sounds like “safety”).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 11

Q11: Explain why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text. Use details from the text to support your answer.

Code

Descriptor

B

• blank: nothing written or drawn in the space provided

I

• Illegible: cannot be read; completely crossed out / erased; not written in English • Irrelevant content: does not attempt assigned question • Off topic: no relationship of written work to the question Typical responses: • do not attempt to answer the question OR • restate the question

10

Response attempts to explain why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text. Response either: • answers an aspect of the question OR • does not refer to the reading selection OR • provides inaccurate support.

20

Response indicates a partial understanding of why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text. Response provides: • irrelevant support from the reading selection OR • vague support from the reading selection OR • limited support.

The response usually requires the reader to connect the support to what it is intended to prove.

30

Response indicates an understanding of why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text. Response includes: • some accurate and relevant support and • some vague or underdeveloped support. The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and what it is intended to prove.

40

Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text and provides specific and relevant support.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 11

Code 10

Annotation: Response attempts to explain why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text by answering an aspect of the question (e.g., …because the Spea ker want the reader to Remember) but does not refer to the reading selection.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 11

Code 20

Annotation: Response indicates a partial understanding of why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text by providing vague support (e.g., …the speaker wanted you to remember what you did in the summer). The response requires the reader to connect the support to why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 11

Code 30

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding of why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text by including some accurate and relevant support (e.g., …they want too know if you remember…) and some vague or underdeveloped support (e.g., …what summer smells like and feels like and what You hear in summer). The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 11

Code 40

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why the speaker asks questions repeatedly throughout the text (e.g., …because She/He was saying that was how summer was and Remiding us what we did and what to do) and provides specific and relevant support (e.g., …“Remember the time when the stom blew in and you under a lege until the rian stopped.”).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 12

Q12: Describe how the speaker feels about summer and explain why. Use details from the text to support your answer.

Code

Descriptor

B

• blank: nothing written or drawn in the space provided

I

• Illegible: cannot be read; completely crossed out / erased; not written in English • Irrelevant content: does not attempt assigned question • Off topic: no relationship of written work to the question Typical responses: • do not attempt to answer the question OR • restate the question

10

Response attempts to explain how the speaker feels about summer. Response either: • answers an aspect of the question OR • does not refer to the reading selection OR • provides inaccurate support.

20

Response indicates a partial understanding of how the speaker feels about summer. Response provides: • irrelevant support from the reading selection OR • vague support from the reading selection OR • limited support.

The response usually requires the reader to connect the support to what it is intended to prove.

30

Response indicates an understanding of how the speaker feels about summer. Response includes: • some accurate and relevant support and • some vague or underdeveloped support. The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and what it is intended to prove.

40

Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully how the speaker feels about summer and provides specific and relevant support.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 12

Code 10

Annotation: Response attempts to explain how the speaker feels about summer (e.g., …feels happy about summer…) but does not refer to the reading selection.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 12

Code 20

Annotation: Response indicates a partial understanding of how the speaker feels about summer by providing vague support from the reading selection (e.g., …they rembers all thesse stuff about summer because they really injoyed summer). The response requires the reader to connect the support to how the speaker feels about summer.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 12

Code 30

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding of how the speaker feels about summer by including some accurate and relevant support (e.g., …the smells of summer like bark when it’s drydusty, but nice) and some vague or underdeveloped support (e.g., …feels good about summer…). The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and how the speaker feels about summer.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Poem

That Was Summer – Question 12

Code 40

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully how the speaker feels about summer (e.g….feels good about summer because in summer you can do almost anything you can smell and touch you can touch and look you can hear and feel you can…) and provides specific and relevant support (e.g., …and she wants the time when you can go climbing up a tree when it was steamy and wet).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 5

Q5: Explain how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people. Use details from the text to support your answer.

Code

Descriptor

B

• blank: nothing written or drawn in the space provided

I

• Illegible: cannot be read; completely crossed out / erased; not written in English • Irrelevant content: does not attempt assigned question • Off topic: no relationship of written work to the question Typical responses: • do not attempt to answer the question OR • restate the question

10

Response attempts to explain how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people. Response either: • answers an aspect of the question OR • does not refer to the reading selection OR • provides inaccurate support.

20

Response indicates a partial understanding of how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people. Response provides: • irrelevant support from the reading selection OR • vague support from the reading selection OR • limited support.

The response usually requires the reader to connect the support to what it is intended to prove.

30

Response indicates an understanding of how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people. Response includes: • some accurate and relevant support and • some vague or underdeveloped support. The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and what it is intended to prove.

40

Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people and provides specific and relevant support.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 5

Code 10

Annotation: Response attempts to explain how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people (e.g., …because in a people town there real peple and what people need and a prairie dogs town has real prairie dogs and everything they need) but does not refer to the reading selection.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 5

Code 20

Annotation: Response indicates a partial understanding of how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people by providing limited support (e.g., …there is no streets in a prairie dog town and there is in a town for people). The response requires the reader to connect the support to how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 5

Code 30

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding of how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people by including some accurate and relevant support (e.g., … they do not have houses like us they have holes) and some vague or underdeveloped support (e.g., … they do not have stores, streets, and movies...). The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 5

Code 40

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully how a prairie dog town is the same or different from a town for people (e.g., …People don’t live in holes and prairie dogs do. Prairie dogs town is diffrent cause it’s in grass) and provides specific and relevant support (e.g., People town is diffrent cause theres stores cloths, toys, food and drinks).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 6

Q6: Explain why prairie dogs live in large groups. Use details from the text to support your answer.

Code

Descriptor

B

• blank: nothing written or drawn in the space provided

I

• Illegible: cannot be read; completely crossed out / erased; not written in English • Irrelevant content: does not attempt assigned question • Off topic: no relationship of written work to the question Typical responses: • do not attempt to answer the question OR • restate the question

10

Response attempts to explain why prairie dogs live in large groups. Response either: • answers an aspect of the question OR • does not refer to the reading selection OR • provides inaccurate support.

20

Response indicates a partial understanding of why prairie dogs live in large groups. Response provides: • irrelevant support from the reading selection OR • vague support from the reading selection OR • limited support.

The response usually requires the reader to connect the support to what it is intended to prove.

30

Response indicates an understanding of why prairie dogs live in large groups. Response includes: • some accurate and relevant support and • some vague or underdeveloped support. The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and what it is intended to prove.

40

Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why prairie dogs live in large groups and provides specific and relevant support.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 6

Code 10

Annotation: Response attempts to explain why prairie dogs live in large groups by answering an aspect of the question (e.g., …because they like to have nebours).

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 6

Code 20

Annotation: Response indicates a partial understanding of why prairie dogs live in large groups by providing vague support from the reading selection (e.g., …because it is safer if they live together than alone). The response requires the reader to connect the support to why prairie dogs live in large groups.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 6

Code 30

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding of why prairie dogs live in large groups by including some accurate and relevant support (e.g., …a prarie dog barks so other praie dogs can dive in to their holes) and some vague or underdeveloped support (e.g., …because if an owil comes…). The response requires the reader to make some connections between the support and why prairie dogs live in large groups.

Scoring Guide for Reading Open Response Informational

Prairie Dogs Have Their Own Town – Question 6

Code 40

Annotation: Response indicates an understanding by explaining fully why prairie dogs live in large groups (e.g., So priaire dogs live together for saftey) and provides specific and relevant support (e.g., …because if there is a hunter, fox or a owl one neighbour would bark and the rest of the priaire dogs could hide).