Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Gym Helper Tyler would like to be a gym helper next year in the 6 th grade. He decides to write a letter to Coach Grey to tell the coach he is interested. 1Which of these methods would be the most helpful to Tyler before he begins to write? Apracticing basketball shots in the gym Blooking up words in the dictionary that he wants to use in his letter Cdeciding how many pages his letter will be Dlisting the things he wants to include in his letter 2Who is Tyler’s audience for this letter? Fthe school principal Ghis parents HCoach Grey Jhis homeroom teacher

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 1D5.8ab – Create a plan and organize thoughts before writing 2H5.8ce – Demonstrate awareness of intended audience Notes to Teacher: The writing subtest of the Grade 5 English 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. The first 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. Items following the first section 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. The second section of the rough draft will contain embedded errors in usage or mechanics. Items following this section will refer to underlined words or groups of words in the second section of the rough draft and 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 the underlined words will contain no error and the correct answer will be "as it is." Following the expanded blueprint is a list of usage and mechanics skills which are addressed in the Editing reporting category. Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Read the first part of Tyler’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below. (1)Dear Coach Grey, (2)I have always wanted to be a gym helper. (3)I know that I could be responsible enough to handle that job. (4)My sister, Shelley, was your gym helper four years ago. (5)She has told me all about it. (6)I would really love to be a gym helper. (7)Would you please consider giving me the job next school year? 3How are sentences 4 and 5 best combined? AMy sister, Shelley, was your gym helper four years ago, and she has told me all about it. BMy sister, Shelley, was your gym helper four years ago, but she has told me all about it. CMy sister, Shelley, was your gym helper four years ago because she told me all about it. DMy sister, Shelley, was your gym helper four years ago since she told me all about it. 4Which of these sentences should be removed because it repeats information already provided? Fsentence 2 Gsentence 3 Hsentence 6 Jsentence 7

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 3A5.8fc – Revise writing for clarity. 4H5.8fe – Revise writing for clarity. 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 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.

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Read the second part of Tyler's rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below. (8)My sister has told me brief about all of the responsibilities a gym helper has. (9)I know I would need to sweep the basketball court everyday before school. (10)She also said that I would need to check and make sure the equipment was in good condition. (11)I know I am responsible enough to do these things. (12)Already, I help my dad keep our garage clean, and I’m very careful with all of our sports equipment at home. 5In sentence 8, how is brief best written? Abriefer Bbriefing Cbriefly Das it is 6In sentence 12, how is Already, best written? FAlready; GAlready. HAlready Jas it is

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 5C5.9bb – Use adjective and adverb comparisons. 6J5.9fa – Use commas to indicate interrupters and in the salutation and closing of letter. 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: Answer Sheet – For Teacher Use 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

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Read the third part of Tyler’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below. (13)My other teachers will gladly share my grades with you. (14)I know you insist that your gym helper maintain only A’s and B’s. (15)You do not have to worry about my dedication to my schoolwork. (16)I’ve made the Principals’ list for the last three years. 7In sentence 13, how is gladly best written? Aglad Bgladerly Cgladlier Das it is 8In sentence 15, how is Principals’ correctly written? FPrincipals GPrincipals’s HPrincipal’s Jas it is

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 7D5.9bb – Use adjective and adverb comparisons. 8H5.9de – 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

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. Read the fourth part of Tyler’s rough draft. Use it to answer the questions below. (17)I would be so grateful if you would assign me as gym helper for next year. (18) Please think about my request and call my parents at if you would like to dis- cuss it with them. (19)They are very supportive of my wishes. (20) I look forward to hearing from you soon. (21) Sincerely (22) Tyler Bono 9In sentence 18, how is discuss best divided at the end of the line? Adisc-uss Bdi-scuss Cdiscu-ss Das it is 10In sentence 21, how is Sincerely correctly written? FSincerely. GSincerely, HSincerely: Jas it is

Grade 5Week 1 Daily SOL Writing Practice provided by Simply Achieve, Inc. QuestionCorrect AnswerVA SOL Essential Understanding Correlation 9D5.9ga – Use a hyphen to divide words at the end of a line. 10G5.9fa – Use commas to indicate interrupters and in the salutation and closing of a letter. 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