When Answering Questions in This Test Booklet
Grade 5
Reading
Common Assessment 6
WHEN ANSWERING QUESTIONS IN THIS TEST BOOKLET
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Kentucky Open-Response Question
General Scoring Guide
Kentucky Short-Answer Question
General Scoring Guide
READING
This test section contains one or two reading selection(s) with several multiple-choice, open-response, and short-answer questions. Please mark your answer for each multiple-choice question by filling in the circle completely for the correct answer. Mark only one answer for each question. If you do not know the answer make your best guess.Read this story VERY carefully, or else you will miss the important clues.
“Greedy Gorilla”
By Arthur Goldwag
“Breakfast is served at 6:00,” the hulking, unsmiling manager of the Thunder Mountain Ski Lodge and Summer Resort grunted after Tanya Torrence and her family had checked in. “I’ll take your luggage,” he added, limping out from behind the desk. Tanya couldn’t help noticing that he had a club foot.
“You will love it here, girls,” Mr. Torrence said as they walked toward their room. “We’ll go swimming, hiking, and…”
“You better watch out for that gorilla if you go in the woods,” the manager growled, as he set their luggage down in front of their room. “He escaped from a circus three years ago--- when he gets hungry, there’s no telling what he’ll do.”
“Oh my,” Mrs. Torrence gasped.
But, by the next afternoon, the Torrences were having the time of their lives. Tanya and Tori were enjoying the pool. “Look at me!” Tori called, as she jumped off the diving board into the pool.
Suddenly, Tanya cried out in alarm. “Look! It’s the gorilla!” Sure enough, a huge, hairy creature was seen lumbering away from the lodge.
A while later the Torrences surveyed the wreckage of their room. Clothes were strewn everywhere; furniture was overturned. The glass door leading out to the balcony was shattered. Glass covered the balcony, but fortunately none had gotten inside the room.
“That’s how he got in,” the manager remarked. “Climbed up the side of the building, just like a---well, a big monkey.” The manager shrugged. “I’ll need to file a report with our insurance company,” he said to Mr. Torrence. “Is anything else missing besides the girls’ MP3 player and your laptop computer?”
“My grandmother’s diamond bracelet,” Mrs. Torrence said.
Tori opened a cupboard in the tiny kitchenette. “At least he left my bananas,” she said, peeling herself a piece of her favorite fruit.
“How can you even think of eating at a time like this? Her mother said reproaching her.
“And how could you think for a moment that we’d fall for that stupid gorilla ruse?” Tanya said to the manger. “Dad, you better call the police.”
Solution
Tanya Torrence is a 10-year-old girl with curly brown hair, black Cat’s Eye glasses and fearsome powers of deduction. But, you could hardly blame her parents if they despaired about her manners.
“Tanya!” her mother yelled, rebuking her sharply. “You owe this man an apology! We’ve taught you to be respectful of your elders.”
But Tanya’s father knew better than to doubt his daughter’s smarts, especially when it came to felonious matters. “Just a minute, dear,” he said to his wife. “Let’s hear her out first.”
Tanya regarded the manager through narrowed eyes. “This place is a ski resort too, isn’t it? How’s a gorilla supposed to survive in the snow for three winters?”
“Beats me,” the manger replied. “Ask a primatologist.” He turned to Tanya’s parents. “I’m willing to overlook your daughter’s rudeness this time, but if you’ll excuse me, I’m a busy man. Got a hotel to run, you know. I’ll send a maid up immediately.”
Mrs. Torrence nodded her head. “Yes, of course,” she said apologetically.
“I’m not done yet,” Tanya shouted. “If the gorilla climbed up the side of the building, how did he get into our room?”
“Easy,” the manager answered. “He broke the balcony door.”
“And then he swept up all the glass and put it outside so we wouldn’t hurt our feet?”
“He’s a circus ape dear,” Tanya’s mother reminder her. “They’re highly trained.”
“But even a circus ape wouldn’t take an MP3 player and a computer and some jewelry and leave a bunch of bananas behind.” A trickle of sweat ran down the manager’s forehead as Tanya wagged an accusing finger at him. “If he were hungry, wouldn’t he have ransacked the kitchenette first?”
The manager began backing toward the hallway as Mr. Torrence picked up the phone.
“Whoever broke that window broke it from this side of the door,” Tanya said. “But nobody saw an ape in the halls or the lobby, and the door to the room is undamaged. You know what I think? I think you used your passkey to get in. Then, you made sure that lots of witnesses saw you running toward the woods---limping and dressed up in your gorilla costume.”
There was deafening BANG! As the manger slammed the door in Tanya’s face; they could hear his footsteps clomping irregularly down the hall.
“Stop him! Tanya’s mother screamed.
“He won’t get far,” Tanya’s father answered calmly. “I’ve got the police on the line already.”
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READING MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Please mark your answer for each multiple-choice question by filling in the circle completely for the correct answer (at the top of the open-response answer sheet). Mark only one answer for each question. If you do not know the answer, make your best guess.1. / What is the root word of felonious?
a. Loon
b. Fool
c. Fellow
d. Felony
2. / The following sentence from the passage is an example of which literary device?
“A trickle of sweat ran down the manager’s forehead as Tanya wagged an accusing finger at him.”
a. Foreshadowing
b. Simile
c. Imagery
d. Personification
3. / The story said that Tanya had “fearsome powers of deduction.” Which detail does not support that main idea?
a. Tanya regarded the manager through narrowed eyes. “This place is a ski resort too, isn’t it? How’s a gorilla supposed to survive in the snow for three winters?”
b. You could hardly blame her parents if they despaired about her manners.
c. “But nobody saw an ape in the halls or the lobby, and the door to the room is undamaged…I think you used your passkey to get it.”
d. Tanya’s father knew better than to doubt his daughter’s smarts, especially when it came to felonious matters.
4. / Identify the meaning of lumbering in, “Sure enough, a huge hairy creature was seen lumbering away from the lodge.”
a. sawing lumber
b. walking awkwardly
c. crawling on all fours
d. collecting wood
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5. / One important clue that Tanya noticed when checking into the hotel that helped her later solve the case wasa. the manager’s scruffy beard.
b. the type of glass in the doors.
c. the manager’s limp and club foot.
d. the bananas.
6. / If Tanya were to find another clue that blames the manager, the line that would make the most sense would be
a. Additionally, Tanya found another clue.
b. In contrast, Tanya found another clue.
c. Unfortunately, Tanya found another clue.
d. Occasionally, Tanya found another clue.
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READING OPEN-RESPONSE QUESTION
Read all parts of each open-response question before you begin. Write your answers to the open-response questions in the space provided in this test booklet.Write your answer to question 7 in the space provided on the next page.
Revisiting the Clues
7. / The manager of the lodge could not fool Tanya Torrence, girl detective! Think about the clues that gave the manager’s plot away and helped Tanya solve the mystery of the Greedy Gorilla.
A. Some clues are more helpful than others. Identify two clues from the story that you think were most helpful to Tanya.
B. Explain why the clues you chose were most helpful to her when she solved the mystery. Be sure to use information from the story to support your explanation.
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READING SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION
Write your answer to question 8 in the space provided on the next page.
Mommie Dearest
8. / How could Tanya’s mother’s initial reaction to Tanya accusing the manager have kept Tanya from solving the mystery? Explain your answer.
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Common Assessment #6
Grade 5
Reading
Multiple-Choice
Question / Ky. Common Academic Standard / Answer1. / 5.RF.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. / D
2. / 5.RLS.5a Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context. / C
3. / 5.IT.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text. / B
4. / 5.RF.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. / B
5. / 5.W.9b Apply grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]”). / C
6. / 5.W.2c. Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially). / A
Open-Response Scoring Guide
· Ky. Common Academic Standard: 5.W.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. 5.W.9b Apply grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]”).
SCORE / DESCRIPTION4 / Students must correctly answer parts A and B and demonstrate clear understanding through description.
Possible clues include:
· The broken glass was on the balcony instead of being inside the room. If the intruder broke through the glass door to enter the room from the balcony, the glass would have been inside the room.
· The gorilla left the ripe bananas in the kitchen and did not eat them; instead he stole a MP3 player, laptop computer, and diamond bracelet. Because the gorilla lived in the woods around the ski lodge after escaping from the circus 3 years ago, it would be hungry and would have taken the bananas to eat, not the other things.
· The intruder got into the room without damaging the door to the hall. Since the manager would have a passkey to the room, he would have been able to come in without damaging anything.
· Nobody saw an ape inside the hotel lobby or halls and the intruder would have had to enter from the hall.
· The escaping gorilla moved with a lumbering gate, similarly to the manager’s walk.
· A gorilla could not have committed the crime since they cannot survive in the snow for three winters as the manager had described.
3 / Students must correctly answer parts A and B, but lack clear understanding through description.
2 / Students correctly answer either part A or B, with limited description.
1 / Students correctly answer either part A or B, with no description.
0 / Student’s response is totally incorrect or irrelevant.
Blank / No student response.
Short-Answer Scoring Guide
Ky. Common Academic Standard: 5.W.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. 5.W.9a Apply grade 5 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., how characters interact]”).
SCORE / DESCRIPTION2 / Student response states that had Tanya listened to her mother at the beginning and “respected” the manager by not accusing him of the theft, Tanya would not have discovered the other clues and solved the mystery. Therefore the manager would have gotten away with the theft. Student must use specific examples from the text.
1 / Student response includes an initial understanding of the question but the response is not completely clear or the student has not fully explained the reasoning behind their answer.
0 / Student’s response is totally incorrect or irrelevant.
Blank / No student response.
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