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PRACTICE TEST DAY: NOVEMBER 25, 2015 SELECTED RELEASED ITEMS FROM THE MARCH 2015 LITERACY TEST

YOU RECEIVED 5 LITERACY LESSONS: Lesson 1: Strategies for making inferences. Lesson 2: Strategies for answering multiple choice questions. Lesson 3: Using a graphic organizer and the rubric to help you write a response to something you read. Lesson 4: Using a graphic organizer and the rubric to help you write a free response question. Lesson 5: Using a graphic organizer and rubric to help you write a summary question.

YOU PRACTICED WHAT YOU LEARNED DURING THE LESSONS

TODAY IS TEST DAY!

You may use the following from your folder: - To help you make inferences: It Says, I Say and So. - To help you organize ideas: 3 different graphic organizers (writing a reading response, writing an “On my own” response and writing a summary paragraph). There is more…

- To help with transitions between sentences: Useful transitions and linking expressions. - To help you remember the criteria: The writing rubrics from lessons 3, 4 and 5. Bring these pages out of your folder.

THE PRACTICE TEST CONSIST OF: A) TWO READING SELECTIONS: B) ONE ON MY OWN SHORT WRITTEN ANSWER 1. HUGE MURAL MARKS A GRAFITTI PHILOSOPHY 2. Ice sculptures

YOU WILL RECEIVE FOUR DOUBLE SIDED PAGES PAGE 1: THE TWO READINGS (ONE ON EACH SIDE). PAGE 2: THE TWO SETS OF MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (ONE READING’S MC QUESTIONS ON EACH SIDE). PAGE 3: THE TWO ANSWER PAGES FOR EACH READING. (YOU WILL WRITE YOUR NAME AND STUDENT NUMBER ON THIS PAGE). PAGE 4: THE “ON MY OWN” SHORT WRITING TASK. THE ANSWER PAGE IS THE ONLY PAGE YOU HAND IN FOR EVALUATION.

DON’T MIX UP THE QUESTION AND ANSWER SHEETS!

1 2 3 This is the Mural Graffiti set. Keep them together when you are working on the Mural reading selection.

1 2 3 This is the Ice Sculpture set. Keep them together when you are working on the Ice Sculpture reading selection..

USE PENCILS OR PENS. YOU MAY WANT AN ERASER. YOU MAY USE A HIGHLIGHTER TO MARK IMPORTANT TEXT.

BRING OUT YOUR IT SAYS, I SAY AND SO PROMPT SHEET TO SUPPORT YOU ANSWERING THE IMPLICIT QUESTIONS BRING OUT THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER TEMPLATES TO SUPPORT YOU ANSWERING THE SHORT WRITTEN RESPONSE QUESTIONS. BRING OUT A WRITTEN RESPONSE RUBRIC SO YOU CAN KEEP THE CRITERIA IN MIND WHILE WRITING. Anything else?

WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED Check your work over. Complete the feedback form on the reverse side of your free response answer page. Wait quietly for others to finish.

COMPLETE THE FEEDBACK FORM ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE OPEN RESPONSE QUESTION

Are you ready to start the test? ALMOST!

BE TEST MINDFUL. The rubric tells you what EQAO wants. The rubric says: Do this, this, this and this and you get marks for your work. Do this, this, this or that and you don’t get marks for your work. You choose. EQAO has told you what they are looking for. No surprises.

BEGIN NOW!

TIME IS UP 1.Be sure your name and student number are on the answer pages. 2. Hand in the Mural/Ice Sculpture answers sheet. 3. Hand in your “If your school could offer a new course” short written answer.