1171 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Vocabulary: Antonym for noisy Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to identify an antonym, or a word with an opposite meaning, for the bolded word noisy. Learning synonyms and antonyms for words is an important part of extending a student's vocabulary.... 1172 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Vocabulary: Definition of good Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to use dictionary entries to determine word meaning. Using resources to find meanings, spellings, word parts and derivation is a valuable skill in both reading and writing development.... 1173 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Ring! Ring!: Allie and Amy's friendship Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to read an excerpt from the selection and to make a determination, or draw a conclusion, about what has been read. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 1174 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Ring! Ring!: Feelings toward new neighbor Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to use information from the passage to determine how Amy and Allie feel when the new neighbor arrives. Identifying and understanding character development and attributes is an important skill in literary analysis.... 1175 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Ring! Ring!: What does burst mean? Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to determine the meaning of a word that may be above their independent reading level by using the context of the sentence. Students will often encounter difficult words as they read.... 1176 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Ring! Ring!: Will the three girls become friends? Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to predict if Allie and Amy will become friends with the new girl, Gracie, and to support that prediction with details from the selection. This is a sample extended response test item used in a past Ohio Reading Achievement Test (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 1177 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Ring! Ring!: Swimming with questions Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to use their knowledge of figurative language to determine the author's intent. In this case the author uses swimming with questions to represent how anxious Allie is to find things out about the new girl who is moving in.... 1178 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Ring! Ring!: What do Amy and Allie notice about Gracie? Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to use what they know about the character Gracie to determine what Amy and Allie notice about Gracie's looks. Questions of this type are important in students' growing knowledge of characterization.... 1179 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Rabbits, Rabbits, and More Rabbits: Author's purpose Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to determine the reason the author wrote this passage and/or the purpose for which someone would read it. Students at the Grade 3 level are taught that there are 3 main reasons for reading a selection: to be informed, to follow directions or to be entertained.... 1180 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Rabbits, Rabbits, and More Rabbits: Tame rabbits Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: question asks students to determine the answer to a question based on information they found in the reading selection. In this case students are to use the word bank, a feature common to reading selections at this grade level, to determine a word meaning and use that meaning to help answer the question.... |