241 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: Flocks of passenger pigeons Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to determine how a specific paragraph adds to their understanding of Passenger Pigeons. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Graduation Test for Reading (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 242 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: Passenger pigeons Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to identify the statement that most accurately describes Passenger Pigeon flocks today. Students may need to skim the text to compare dates of descriptions provided in the text.... 243 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Senator George Graham Vest: When riches take wings Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to identify how an author uses a rhetorical device for the purpose of reaching an audience (i.e., a jury). The author uses the phrase, “When riches take wings…,” to help illustrate how easily wealth and fortune can disappear.... 244 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Senator George Graham Vest: A man's dog stands by him Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to determine the meaning of a word from its context. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Graduation Test for Reading (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 245 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: Senator George Graham Vest: Summarize the last paragraph Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to demonstrate their comprehension of text by summarizing a portion of what they have read. Complete comprehension of the last paragraph of this passage requires students to acknowledge at least two compelling ideas presented by the author.... 246 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: The Bike: A bean plant rising from earth Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to choose the correct interpretation of the description “like a bean plant rising from earth.” Students should recognize that this phrase is figurative language and that authors use figurative language to enhance their writing. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Graduation Test for Reading (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 247 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: The Bike: Appropriate subtitle Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to recall and summarize the passage and infer which response might be an appropriate subtitle for the story. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Graduation Test for Reading (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 248 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: The Bike: Sarah Street Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to infer information from the passage by rereading the section where the mother describes Sarah Street to the boy. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Graduation for Reading (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 249 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: The Bike: A sprinkler Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to use the context surrounding the phrase “hissing on a lawn” to determine what the phrase means. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Graduation Test for Reading (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 250 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 10: The Bike: The narrator's risk taking Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to think about the motivations of one of the characters from the passage. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Graduation Test for Reading (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... |