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Constructed Response Items: Reading Grade 7

 (1) Brief Constructed Response Public Release
Read "Scrambled Eggs" and answer the following question.

Explain a theme developed in this story. Use details from the story to support your answer. Write your answer in your answer book.

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 (2) Brief Constructed Response Public Release
Read "Tackling the Trash" and answer the following question.

Explain whether or not "Tackling the Trash" is an effective title for this article. Use information from the article in your explanation. Write your answer in your answer book.

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 (3) Brief Constructed Response Public Release
Read "Tackling the Trash" and answer the following question.

Explain how the information in the chart helps to clarify the main ideas of the article. Use information from the chart and the article in your explanation. Write your answer in your answer book.

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 (4) Brief Constructed Response Public Release
Read "Tackling the Trash" and answer the following question.

Choose one of Chad's qualities. Explain how you or someone you know displays that same quality. Use information from the article in your explanation. Write your answer in your answer book.

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 (5) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Read the article 'A Lifeline for Lions' and answer the following question.

Explain whether the title helps a reader understand an important idea of this article. In your response, use information from the article that supports your explanation.

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 (6) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Read the story 'Scrambled Eggs' and answer the following question.

Explain the tone created by the author's words and phrases in paragraphs 10-12. In your response, use details and examples from the story that support your explanation. Write your answer on your answer document.

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 (7) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Read the story 'Scrambled Eggs' and answer the following question.

Explain what the innkeeper probably learns from his experience. In your response, use details and examples from the story that support your explanation.

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 (8) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Read "Tackling the Trash" and answer the following question.

The houseboat headquarters for Chad's team was named The Miracle. Is The Miracle an appropriate name for the houseboat? In your response, use information from the article that supports your answer. Write your answer on your answer document.

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 (9) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Read the poems 'Leaving The Library' and 'The Traveler' and answer the following question.

Compare the moods created in "Leaving the Library" and "The Traveler." In your response, use details and examples from both poems that support your answer. Write your answer on your answer document.

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 (10) Brief Constructed Response Sample
What text feature could have been added to "Bard of Avon" to make the article easier to understand? In your response, use information from the article that supports your answer. Write your answer on your answer document.

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 (11) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Explain whether or not the use of words and phrases in "Bard of Avon" makes the theater in Shakespeare's London sound interesting. In your response, use information from the article that supports your explanation. Write your answer on your answer document.

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 (12) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Explain what information could have been added to "Bard of Avon" to help a reader better understand an important idea in the article. In your response, use information from the article that supports your explanation. Write your answer on your answer document.

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 (13) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Read this passage about a family’s dinner table conversation from the novel Absolutely Normal Chaos.

How does the author use the dinner table conversation to make the characters seem real? In your response, use details from their conversation that make the characters seem real.

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 (14) Brief Constructed Response Sample
Read this passage about a family’s dinner table conversation from the novel Absolutely Normal Chaos.

How does the author create comedy in the passage? In your response, use details from the passage that create comedy.

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