tailieunhanh - VIRGINIA STANDARDS OF LEARNING ASSESSMENTS Spring 2001 Released Test GRADE 5 ENGLISH:WRITING

In May of 2000, I graduated with an undergraduate degree in elementary education and a minor in English as a Second Language. My first teaching position was in a rural school district. I taught fourth through eighth grade bilingual classes, two sections of seventh and eighth grade Spanish, and worked with several at-risk students. Frustrated by the educational gains these students made, and the lack of respect for bilingual education, I applied and was hired for my current fourth grade position in a neighboring school district. After seeing many problems in students’ ability to transfer. | Virginia Standards of Learning assessments Spring 2001 Released Test GRADE 5 ENGLISH WRITING Property of the Virginia Department of Education 2001 by the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Education James Monroe Building 101 N. 14th Street Richmond Virginia 23219. All rights reserved. Except as permitted by law this material may not be reproduced or used in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying or recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without written permission from the copyright owner. Commonwealth of Virginia public school educators may photocopy or print any portion of these Released Tests for educational purposes without requesting permission. All others should direct their requests to the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Education at 804 225-2102 Division of Assessment and Reporting. English Writing DIRECTIONS Read the passage in each shaded box. Read each question after the passage. Choose the best answer. Then mark the space in the answer booklet for the answer you have chosen. SAMPLE A A Special Person In English class Sarah has been asked to write a description of someone special to her. Sarah wants to write about her older brother. Which of these would best help Sarah write her description of her older brother A Calling his friends and telling them about him B Thinking about all the things she likes about him C Making a list of things she wants him to do for her D Asking him to take her to the library SAMPLE B Here is the first part of Sarah s rough draft. 1 A special person in my life is my big brother. 2 He is Ben. How can sentences 1 and 2 best be joined F A special person in my life is Ben my big brother. G A special person in my life is my big brother and Ben is who he is. H In my life a special person is my big brother and he is Ben. J My big brother Ben is a special person he is in my life. SAMPLE C Here is the next part of Sarah s rough draft. 3 He help me with my homework. In .