Grades 2–8 Zaner-Bloser®


Available for Grades 2–8, Zaner-Bloser Next Generation Assessment Practice, English Language Arts/Literacy, prepares students for success on Constructed Response test items on next-generation, technology-based Common Core State Standards assessments.


Assessment practice tests are conducted in an interactive environment modeled on PARCC (the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) and SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) assessment workspaces and include optional scaffolding to help students better understand instructions.


Assessment Practice, English Language Arts/Literacy


English Language Arts / Literacy


PART 2: Writing to Multiple Sources1 You will now have 70 minutes2


plan, draft, and revise your speech.3


to review your notes and sources, You may use your notes and


refer to the sources. You may also refer to the answers you wrote to questions in Part 1, but you cannot change those answers.4


Your Assignment


A town-hall meeting will be held to discuss plans to fix up a run- down neighborhood. Located in that neighborhood is a large empty lot. Your community is going to make a social decision about how to improve the lot. Think about the problems empty lots create5


and


your recommended solution that will provide the greatest good for most people (a community garden,6 a playground7 this topic.8


Speech Scoring Your speech will be scored on the following criteria:10


Continued Grade 3 Opinion Copyright © Zaner-Bloser, Inc. All rights reserved. a parking lot for area stores, or ). Your assignment is to write a persuasive speech on


Support your position with information from the sources you have reviewed. The audience for your speech will be the people at the town-hall meeting.9


Now read


your assignment and the information about how your speech will be scored; then begin your work.


1 Gives you information about Part 2 only.


2 Tells you how long you have to complete Part 2.


3 Make a plan for how you want to divide your time.


4 Tells you that your answers in Part 1 are final.


5 Refers to the first source.


6 Refers to the second source.


7 Refers to the third source.


8 Reread the first sentence to review the topic.


9 Tells you what kind of voice your speech should have.


10 Tells you which parts of your speech you should double check because they are important to your score. Tis is like a rubric.


Next Generation


English Language Arts / Literacy


Describe how people can turn an empty lot into a garden. Provide three details from the video to support your answer.


People can turn places in their neighborhoods into gardening areas for everyone to use. Then everyone can have fresh vegetables. The first thing they have to do is make sure the empty lot has soil. They can't put a garden where everything is made of concrete. Then you need a good group of volunteers to help.


PART 1 Instructions


Each Next Generation Assessment Practice test consists of two parts.


• Part 1: Close Reading asks students to examine 2–3 sources and write a response to a question about each source separately.


English Language Arts / Literacy Click the image to watch the video. PART 1 Instructions


• Part 2: Writing to Multiple Sources asks students to write a response to a question and cite evidence from all of the sources they have examined in Part 1.


Grade 3 Opinion Copyright © Zaner-Bloser, Inc. All rights reserved.


Three practice tests are provided for each grade level—one per Common Core State Standards text type (Narrative, Informative/Explanatory, and Opinion or Argument), with unlimited usage per teacher.


Next Generation Assessment Practice Price List Grade Level Grade 2†


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