1. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Making Delicious Brownies Brandon’s teacher has asked the class to write a composition. Brandon decides to write about how to make his mom’s delicious brownies. 1 All of these could help Brandon before he begins writing his essay except – Awatching his mom make brownies Bstarting his rough draft Cnarrowing his topic Dmaking a web of the information he wants to use 2Which of these best describes the reason for writing this essay? Fto explain how to do something Gto tell a story Hto write a cookbook Jto persuade

2. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 1B5.8ab – Choose planning strategies for various writing purposes. 2F5.8cd – Demonstrate awareness of intended audience. Notes to Teacher: The multiple-choice subtest of the Grade 5 English: Writing SOL test will have a series of brief scenarios, each of which defines a writing task for a specified audience. Items following the statement of the writing task will address planning or prewriting activities relevant to the specified task and will be coded to the Planning, Composing, and Revising reporting category. A rough draft of a response to the specified writing task will follow the planning/prewriting test items. The rough draft will be divided into sections. One section will have errors which require revision such as the inclusion of a sentence that does not belong or two sentences that need to be combined. Questions with this part of the rough draft will require the student to correct these errors by choosing the correct revision from the answer choices provided. These items will also be coded to the Planning, Composing, and Revising reporting category. Another section of the rough draft will contain embedded errors in usage or mechanics. Items following this section will require students to choose the answer which represents correct usage or mechanics. These items will be coded to the Editing reporting category. In some cases there will be no error and the correct answer will be "as it is."

3. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. After narrowing his topic to baking brownies, Brandon created this cluster diagram. Use it to answer questions 3 and 4. 3Which detail does not belong on Brandon’s diagram? AGet strawberries for your next dessert. BPreheat the oven. C Organize all the ingredients. D Mix all of the ingredients. 4The audience for this essay would be all of the following except – Fpeople who enjoy chocolate Gpeople who enjoy baking Hpeople who want to make a tasty dessert Jpeople who like fruit pies Preheat the oven. Organize all the ingredients. Get strawberries for your next dessert. Bake brownies and check to see if they are done. Mix all of the ingredients. Baking delicious brownies

4. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 3A5.8be – Organize information 4J5.8cd – Demonstrate awareness of intended audience. Notes to Teacher: During the revising stage of the writing process students will revise for focus, organization, and elaboration. To assist students in developing these skills direct instruction must take place on including important details, deleting unnecessary information and varying sentences. The Standards of Learning writing assessment will ask students to use their revising skills to identify ways to improve a passage that is provided. To be successful on this section of the test students must be able to suggest the best way to combine provided sentences, choose a more descriptive way to write provided sentences and locate unneeded information.

5. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Read the first part of Brandon's rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below. (1)My mom’s brownies are the most delicious I’ve ever eaten. (2)Last Christmas, she taught me her famous recipe. (3)I will share it with you. (4)First, you need to get all of your stuff together. (5)You will need a box of brownie mix, two eggs, oil, water, and two of your favorite candy bars. (6)Candy bars without nuts are much better for this recipe. 5How are sentences 2 and 3 best combined without changing their meaning? ALast Christmas, I learned from my mom a recipe that is famous to share with you. BLast Christmas, she taught me her famous recipe, and I will share it with you. CShe taught me the famous recipe last Christmas for me to share it with you. DLast Christmas, a famous recipe that I can share with you was taught to me. 6How can sentence 5 be written with more specific detail? FYou first need to get everything together. GYou should get all your stuff organized first. HYou need to get organized with all of your stuff before you do anything. JFirst you need to organize all of your ingredients.

6. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 5B5.8fh – Revise writing for clarity. 6J5.8df – Use precise and descriptive vocabulary to crate tone and voice. Notes to Teacher: During the revising stage of the writing process students will revise for focus, organization, and elaboration. To assist students in developing these skills direct instruction must take place on including important details, deleting unnecessary information and varying sentences. The Standards of Learning Writing Assessments will ask students to use their revising skills to identify ways to improve a passage that is provided. To be successful on this section of the test students must be able to suggest the best way to combine provided sentences, choose a more descriptive way to write provided sentences and locate unneeded information. Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use

7. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Read the next part of Brandon’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below. (7)After you’ve set-up all of your ingredients, you should mix everything together except the candy bars. (8)Make sure you preheat your oven to 350 degrees. (9)Next, grease your baking pan and pour the brownie mix into the pan. (10)Before you place the pan in the oven, break-up the candy bars and place the pieces on top of the batter. (11)After you have done this, bake the brownies for thirty five minutes. 7In sentence 7, how is you’ve best written? Ayouve Byou,ve Cyou ve Das it is 8In sentence 11, how is thirty five best written? Fthirtyfive GThirty Five Hthirty-five Jas it is

8. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 7D5.9da – Use apostrophes in contractions and possessives. 8H5.9ga – Use a hyphen to divide words at the end of a line. Notes to Teacher: During the editing stage of the writing process students will edit for correct punctuation and sentence construction. Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use

9. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Read the next part of Brandon’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below. (12)Before taking your brownies from the oven, check to make sure they are done. (13)You can do this by sticking a fork into the center of the brownies. (14)If the fork comes out clean, the brownies are ready. (15)If it doesn’t, they need a few more minutes. (16)I think brownies are best when they are served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. (17)My dad likes them with hot fudge. (18)My Mom’s brownies with candy bar pieces are definitely the best brownies in the world. 9In sentence 15, doesn’t is correctly written – Adon’t Bdoesen’t Cdoes’nt Das it is 10In sentence 18, how is Mom’s best written? Fmom’s Gmoms Hmoms’ Jas it is

10. Grade 5Week 8 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 9D5.9da – Use apostrophes in contractions and possessives. 10F5.9de– Use apostrophes in contractions and possessives. Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use Notes to Teacher: During the editing stage of the writing process students will edit for use of language, capitalization, punctuation and spelling. Students can earn 14 multiple choice points and 8 possible score from the direct-writing component by accurately editing. On Standards of Learning Assessments writing assessments students will edit for the use of: Grade 3Grade 4Grade 5 correct and varied sentences the word i in compound sentences past and present verb tense singular possessives apostrophes in contractions and pronouns commas in a series correct spelling for high frequency words, including irregular plurals subject-verb agreement prepositional phrases double negatives noun-pronoun agreement commas in series, dates, and addresses the incorporation of adjectives and adverbs the articles a, an, and the correct spelling of frequently used words, including homophones plural possessives adjective and adverb comparisons interjections apostrophes in contractions and possessives quotation marks with dialogue Commas to indicate interrupters and in the salutation and closing of a letter A hyphen to divide words at the end of a line Edit for clausal fragments, run-on sentences and excessive coordination