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Practice Test Resource Material

Reading

Grade 4

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NECAP Practice TestGrade 4Reading


Sample Constructed-Response Item (4 points)

ID:200816 Common

u Give three details about the cats in both poems. Use examples from both poems.




Scoring Guide

Score Description

4

Response provides three specifi c, relevant details about the cats in the poems, with at least one detail from each poem. Examples are direct copy from the text or are directly supported by information in one or both poems (e.g., “The cat in poem 1 is sneaky”).

3Response provides three relevant details about the cats in the poems, with at least one detail from each poem. Examples are mostly generalizations supported by information in one or both poems.

2

Response provides only one relevant detail from each poem, through direct copy or generalizations supported by information in one or both poems.ORResponse provides two or three relevant examples from only one poem, through direct copy or generalizations supported by information in the poem.

1 Response is vague/minimal.

0 Response is totally incorrect or irrelevant.

Blank No response.

Training Notes:

Some details about the cats in the poems:

Poem 1: “This Cat” Poem 2: “Our Cat”

The cat is a male (boy cat). The cat is a female (girl cat).

The cat comes and goes. The cat goes out and comes back.

The cat is sneaky, a “sneak.” The cat knows where she is going.

The cat is not seen, hardly makes any noise, walks on “invisible toes.”

The cat knows where she’s been.

The cat lets itself outside. The cat is let inside by a person or people.

Accept other details about the cats that are supported by information in the poems.



Sample 4-Point Response A



Sample 4-Point Response B



Sample 3-Point Response




ID:200904 Common

1@ Explain how you know that Willie Bentley loved snow. Use details from the passage.




Scoring Guide

Score Description

4Response provides a thorough explanation of how the reader knows that Willie Bentley loved snow. Response includes relevant details from the passage.

3Response provides an explanation of how the reader knows that Willie Bentley loved snow. Response lacks some relevant details from the passage or is not fully developed.

2Response provides a partial explanation of how the reader knows that Willie Bentley loved snow. Response includes limited details from the passage.



Blank No response.

Training Notes:

How the reader knows that Willie loved snow:

• His happiest days were snowstorm days. • He watched snowfl akes fall on his mittens, on the fi elds, and on the handle of the barn door. • He said snow was as beautiful as butterfl ies and apple blossoms. • He used an old microscope to look at snowfl akes. • He caught snowfl akes and studied them as other children played in the snow. • He tried to fi nd intricate snowfl akes. • He noticed how no two snowfl akes looked the same. • He asked for an expensive camera with a microscope so he could look at snowfl akes more easily and take pictures. • He continued to try to photograph even though his early pictures were failures. • He waited through two seasons before fi nding a way to photograph snowfl akes. • He said that his photographs of snowfl akes would be his gift to the world.



Sample 2-Point Response B

Sample 2-Point Response A




ID:200903 Common

1& Willie said that his “photographs would be his gift to the world.” Use details from the passage to explain what he meant.




Scoring Guide

Score Description

4Response provides a thorough explanation of what Willie meant when he said that his “photographs would be his gift to the world.” Response includes relevant details from the passage.

3Response provides an explanation of what Willie meant when he said that his “photographs would be his gift to the world.” Response lacks some relevant details from the passage or is not fully developed.

2Response provides a partial explanation of what Willie meant when he says that his “photographs would be his gift to the world.” Response includes limited details from the passage.



Blank No response.

Training Notes:

What Willie meant by saying that his “photographs would be his gift to the world”:

• He will share more of his pictures with his neighbors so they will see the value in them. • He will take more pictures and fi nd a way to share them with the world. • He will take pictures that people can appreciate and see as something special.

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