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Rationale

This lesson provides students with practice answering the selected and constructed response questions on the Narrative Task.

Goal To complete a practice reading section of the Narrative Task

Task Foci

CCSS RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

CCSS RL.5.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

CCSS RL.5.3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

CCSS RL.5.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

Objectives Students will complete a Narrative Task

Materials

Narrative Task (excluding the prose-constructed response) Procedures

Tell your students that today they will complete a practice PARCC Narrative Task. Remind students of the task focus. Students will read a short story or excerpt from a

novel and answer questions about the literary elements in the story. Pass out the test. “You have 20 minutes to complete this test. Ready? Begin.” Remind class when five minutes remain. In closing, ask students for feedback on their test-taking experience.

PARCC Narrative Task

Grade 5 Reading Lesson 4: Practice Completing the Narrative Task


Teacher Observations during the Task Observe how much time students are spending reading the texts; note how many

students are reading the texts more than once. Observe which students are returning to the texts for each question, and which

students are speeding through the questions.

Assessment Refer to the answer key

Extension Activities

Standards Solution has many PARCC-aligned practice tests available online.


from “Peter and Wendy” by J.M. Barrie, adapted by Laura Schaefer

1. Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not

understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.

2. 'Yes, he is rather cocky,' Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her.

3. 'But who is he, my pet?'

4. 'He is Peter Pan, you know, mother.'

5. At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him; as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.

6. 'Besides,' she said to Wendy, 'he would be grown up by this time.'

7. 'Oh no, he isn't grown up,' Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size.' She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn't know how she knew it, she just knew it.

8. Mrs. Darling consulted Mr. Darling, but he smiled pooh-pooh. 'Mark my words,' he said, 'it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Leave it alone, and it will blow over.'

9. But it would not blow over; and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.

10. Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they met their dead father and had a game with him. It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation. Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs. Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile:

11. 'I do believe it is that Peter again!'

12. 'Whatever do you mean, Wendy?'

13. 'It is so naughty of him not to wipe,' Wendy said, sighing. She was a tidy child.

14. She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her. Unfortunately she never woke, so she didn't know how she knew, she just knew.

15. 'What nonsense you talk, precious. No one can get into the house without knocking.'

16. 'I think he comes in by the window,' she said.

17. 'My love, it is three floors up.'

18. 'Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother?'

19. It was quite true; the leaves had been found very near the window.


20. Mrs. Darling did not know what to think, for it all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.

21. 'My child,' the mother cried, 'why did you not tell me of this before?'

22. 'I forgot,' said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast.

23. Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.

24. But, on the other hand, there were the leaves. Mrs. Darling examined them carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot. She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls. She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.

25. Certainly Wendy had been dreaming.


1. Part A: What about Mrs. Darling is hinted at in this story excerpt?

A. She favored Wendy over her boys. B. She thought Peter Pan was dangerous. C. She wished her husband would act more sensibly. D. She knew Peter Pan when she was a child.

Part B: Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the answer to Part A?

A. “'Mark my words,' he said, 'it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Leave it alone, and it will blow over.'” (paragraph 8)

B. "She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.” (paragraph 5)

C. “For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they met their dead father and had a game with him.” (paragraph 10)

D. “Mrs. Darling did not know what to think, for it all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.” (paragraph 20)

2. Part A: Which of these sentences best describes Wendy?

A. Wendy was a nervous and easily frightened child. B. Wendy preferred to read books rather than play. C. Wendy was a confident and tidy child. D. Wendy insisted on having her own way.

Part B: Which detail from the excerpt best supports the answer to Part A?

A. “She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her.” (paragraph 14)

B. “Mrs. Darling examined them carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England.” (paragraph 24)

C. “She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him.” (paragraph 1)

D. “She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.” (paragraph 5)


3. Choose the word that best describes Mrs. Darling, based on this excerpt. There is more than one correct answer.

silly

sensible

foolish

grateful

annoyed

Select a passage from the story that supports the word you chose. Write it in the box below.

4. Part A: Why did Mrs. Darling take what Wendy said more seriously than Mr. Darling did?

A. She had recently started seeing the shadow of her deceased father at night. B. The leaves in the nursery suggested that Wendy had not been dreaming. C. Mrs. Darling felt that Wendy was telling tales to cheer her up. D. All three of her children shimmered as if they had been lit from within.

Part B: Which detail from the excerpt best supports the answer to Part A?

A. “Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed,” (paragraph 10)

B. “She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot. She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls.” (paragraph 24)

C. “But it would not blow over; and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.” (paragraph 9)

D. “She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.” (paragraph 24)


5. Create a summary of the story by placing its main events into the graphic organizer in the

order in which they occurred.

A. Mr. Darling dismissed the children’s stories of Peter as nonsense. B. Mrs. Darling measured the distance from the nursery window to the ground. C. Wendy discovered leaves on the nursery floor. D. Mrs. Darling noticed the name of Peter in her children’s minds.

1. 2. 3. 4.


Answer Key

1A. D 1B. B 2A. C 2B. A 3. sensible 4A. B 4B. A 5. Mrs. Darling noticed the name of Peter in her children’s minds. Mr. Darling dismissed the children’s stories of Peter as nonsense. Wendy discovered leaves on the nursery floor. Mrs. Darling measured the distance from the nursery window to the ground.

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