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A Visit to Grandpa’s HouseMrs. Simon’s class has been asked to write an essay about one of their favorite places to visit. Joshua is excited to write about his grandfather’s house on the Chesapeake Bay. Joshua makes these notes about where his grandfather lives.

1 Which detail is in the wrong place on Joshua’s chart?

A John Smith named the area

B Crabbing

C Opens to the Atlantic Ocean

D World famous crabs and oysters

2 Which of these should Joshua put in the box labeled “Fun things to do”?

F includes part of Virginia and Maryland

G hunting

H towns have Native American names

J a long narrow piece of land

Geography Fun things to do History Great things to eat

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel

Ancient river valley filled by many rivers.

Opens to the Atlantic Ocean

Crabbing

Fishing

Boating

Beaches

John Smith named the area.

Colonists landed in 1607.

Fear of Indians made them flee up the James River where they

founded Jamestown.

Many farms with fruit, potatoes, poultry.

Crisfield, Md. “seafood capital of the world”

World famous crabs and oysters.

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Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use

Question Correct Answer VA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation

1 A 5.8bb – Organize information.

2 G 5.8bc – Organize information.

Notes to Teacher:The multiple-choice subtest of the Grade 5 English: Writing SOL test will have a series of brief scenarios, each of which defines a writing task for a specified audience. Items following the statement of the writing task will address planning or prewriting activities relevant to the specified task and will be coded to the Planning, Composing, and Revising reporting category. A rough draft of a response to the specified writing task will follow the planning/prewriting test items. The rough draft will be divided into sections. One section will have errors which require revision such as the inclusion of a sentence that does not belong or two sentences that need to be combined. Questions with this part of the rough draft will require the student to correct these errors by choosing the correct revision from the answer choices provided. These items will also be coded to the Planning, Composing, and Revising reporting category.

Another section of the rough draft will contain embedded errors in usage or mechanics. Items following this section will require students to choose the answer which represents correct usage or mechanics. These items will be coded to the Editing reporting category. In some cases there will be no error and the correct answer will be "as it is."

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Read the first part of Joshua’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below.

(1)Of all of the places we go in the summer, my favorite is my grandpa’s house on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. (2)He lives right on the Chesapeake Bay. (3)We do lots of fun stuff together. (4)The seafood and fresh vegetables that we eat at Grandpa’s are delicious. (5)I love the stories Grandpa tells of how the colonists came to the Chesapeake Bay before settling in Jamestown. (6)My visits with Grandpa on the Chesapeake Bay are the best part of summer vacation.

3 How can sentence 3 be written with more description?

A There is a whole lot of fun stuff to do.

B We can fish, crab, and hunt together.

C We do lots of fun activities with each other.

D There are many fun things to do there.

4 By looking at the format of Joshua’s writing you can tell that he is writing –

F a story

G a letter

H a poem

J a report

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Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use

Question Correct Answer VA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation

3 B 5.8de – Use precise and descriptive vocabulary to create tone and voice.

4 J 5.8bc – Organize information.

Notes to Teacher:During the revising stage of the writing process students will revise for focus, organization, and elaboration.

To assist students in developing these skills direct instruction must take place on including important details, deleting unnecessary information and varying sentences.

The Standards of Learning assessment will ask students to use their revising skills to identify ways to improve a passage that is provided. To be successful on this section of the test students must be able to suggest the best way to combine provided sentences, choose a more descriptive way to write provided sentences and locate unneeded information.

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Read the second part of Joshua's rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below.

(7)One of my favorite things to do when I visit Grandpa is listen to his stories of the early history of the Chesapeake Bay. (8)He tells me that a long time ago, colonists came to the Eastern Shore. (9)Many other colonists were also looking for places to settle. (10)They were afraid of all of the Indians and decided to go further up the James River to settle Jamestown. (11)Grandpa says that John Smith even named the Chesapeake Bay after an Indian word, che-sep-ack which means “country on a great river.”

5 How can sentence 8 be written with more description?

A He tells me that many years ago, colonists arrived on the Eastern Shore.

B He tells me that a long time ago, some people came to the Eastern Shore.

C He tells me that in 1607, London colonists landed at Cape

Henry on the Eastern Shore.

D He says that a long time before I was born, people came to the Eastern

Shore.

6 Which sentence should be removed because it does not focus on the topic?

F sentence 9

G sentence 10

H sentence 11

J sentence 12

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Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use

Question Correct Answer VA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation

5 C 5.8de – Use precise and descriptive vocabulary to create tone and voice.

6 F 5.8fe - Revise writing for clarity.

Notes to Teacher:During the revising stage of the writing process students will revise for focus, organization, and elaboration.

To assist students in developing these skills direct instruction must take place on including important details, deleting unnecessary information and varying sentences.

The Standards of Learning Assessments will ask students to use their revising skills to identify ways to improve a passage that is provided. To be successful on this section of the test students must be able to suggest the best way to combine provided sentences, choose a more descriptive way to write provided sentences and locate unneeded information.

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Read the third part of Joshua’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below.

(12)Grandpa and I have so much fun when we are together. (13)On the Chesapeake Bay we can crab and we can also fish and even we hunt. (14)The beaches are beautiful. (15)We love to pick fresh tomatoes from Grandmas garden. (16)Sometimes we will eat steamed Blue crabs in Crisfield, Maryland. (17)Crisfield is known as the “seafood capital of the world.”

7 How is sentence 13 best written?

A On the Chesapeake Bay, we can crab, fish, and hunt.

B We can crab on the Chesapeake Bay and even we can fish and hunt.

C We can even crab and hunt and fish also on the Chesapeake Bay.

D as it is

8 In sentence 15, how is Grandmas correctly written?

F Grandmas’

G Grand’mas

H Grandma’s

J as it is

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Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use

Question Correct Answer VA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation

7 A 5.9hi - Edit for clausal fragments, run-on sentences, and excessive coordination.

8 H 5.9da – use apostrophes in contractions and possessives.

Notes to Teacher:During the editing stage of the writing process students will edit for correct punctuation and sentence construction.

The Standards of Learning Assessments will ask students to edit a given passage for punctuation of apostrophes, commas, quotation marks and hyphens.

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Read the fourth part of Joshua’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below.

(18)One of the most cool parts of visiting Grandpa on the Chesapeake Bay is getting there. (19)We drive from Norfolk, Virginia over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. (20)This bridge/tunnel is seventeen miles long. (21)We see so many fishing boats. (22)And sometimes even dolphins. (23) We have even seen Navy ships leaving for the Atlantic Ocean. (24)Visiting Grandpa on the Eastern Shore is a great summer adventure.

9 In sentence 18, most cool is correctly written?

A coolest

B more cool

C most cooler

D as it is

10 Which item is not a complete sentence?

F sentence 19

G sentence 20

H sentence 21

J sentence 22

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Daily SOL Writing PracticeDaily SOL Writing PracticeGrade 5Grade 5 Week 6Week 6

Question Correct Answer VA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation

9 A 5.9bc – Use adjective and adverb comparisons.

10 J 5.9hg – Edit for clausal fragments, run-on sentences, and excessive coordination.

Notes to Teacher:During the editing stage of the writing process students will edit for use of language, capitalization, punctuation and spelling. Students can earn 14 multiple choice points and 8 possible score from the direct-writing component by accurately editing.On Standards of Learning Assessments writing assessments students will edit for the use of:

Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5

•correct and varied sentences•the word i in compound sentences•past and present verb tense•singular possessives•apostrophes in contractions and pronouns•commas in a series•correct spelling for high frequency words, including irregular plurals

•subject-verb agreement•prepositional phrases•double negatives•noun-pronoun agreement•commas in series, dates, and addresses•the incorporation of adjectives and adverbs•the articles a, an, and the •correct spelling of frequently used words, including homophones

•plural possessives•adjective and adverb comparisons•interjections•apostrophes in contractions and possessives•quotation marks with dialogue•Commas to indicate interrupters and in the salutation and closing of a letter•A hyphen to divide words at the end of a line•Edit for clausal fragments, run-on sentences and excessive coordination

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