171 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: If I Ever Return Again: Making and supporting predictions Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This short-answer question asks students to think about the events and details in a passage to make and support a reasonable prediction about something that might happen next. Making and supporting predictions helps readers understand and think about what they read. This is a sample constructed response test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 172 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: What Is It?: Author's purpose and perspective Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This multiple-choice question asks students to identify an author’s purpose and explain an author’s viewpoint in informational text. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments). From this test item, a visitor may view the reading passage and information regarding the general performance on this item. The Ohio Department of Education's IMS website allows visitors to search for test items and build a printable database of questions by choosing the "Add to Backpack" function. This resource is also available in Word format. ODE Reference Information: 2006-Grade 7 Reading, Annotated Item 17.... 173 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: Do You Want to Write Haiku?: Connecting texts Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This multiple-choice question asks students to explain how the text of a work of non-fiction may relate to other texts on a similar topic. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments). From this test item, a visitor may view the reading passage and information regarding the general performance on this item. The Ohio Department of Education's IMS website allows visitors to search for test items and build a printable database of questions by choosing the "Add to Backpack" function. This resource is also available in Word format. ODE Reference Information: 2006-Grade 7 Reading, Annotated Item 40.... 174 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: A Healing Place for Animals: Connecting ideas Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to explain how a main idea or topic connects to another main idea or topic from a different source. In this question, the student must determine which Web site would contain reliable information on environmental problems faced by the bald eagle. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments). From this test item, a visitor may view the reading passage and information regarding the general performance on this item. The Ohio Department of Education's IMS website allows visitors to search for test items and build a printable database of questions by choosing the "Add to Backpack" function. This resource is also available in Word format.... 175 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: Yia-Yia's Dance: Make and support predictions Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This two-point, short-answer question asks students to make a prediction based on information in the text. This is a sample constructed response test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 176 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: A Man for All Time: Leonardo da Vinci: Analyze and draw inferences Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This multiple-choice question asks students to understand that there are many different ways to do research, including using different resources like the Internet. They also need to know that it is important to search using words that describe exactly the topic of interest. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments). From this test item, a visitor may view the reading passage and information regarding the general performance on this item. The Ohio Department of Education's IMS website allows visitors to search for test items and build a printable database of questions by choosing the "Add to Backpack" function. This resource is also available in Word format.... 177 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: A Healing Place for Animals: Summarizing information Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This extended-response question asks students to apply the reading strategy of summarizing what has been read in the passage. This is a constructed response sample test item used on a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 178 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: Do You Want to Write Haiku?: Connecting key ideas Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This four-point, extended-response question asks students to explain how the main ideas in one source connect to the main ideas in another. This is a sample constructed response test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 179 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: Yia-Yia's Dance: Meaning of figurative language Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This four-point, extended-response question asks students to explain how figurative language expresses ideas. This is a sample constructed response test item used on a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 180 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 7: A Child Prodigy: Author's purpose Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Professional Commentary: This multiple-choice question asks students to identify an author’s purpose for writing a passage. This is a sample test item used in a past Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... |