Grade 3rd

Reading

WHEN ANSWERING QUESTIONS IN THIS TEST BOOKLET

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· Use only soft black lead pencil (No. 2).
· Do NOT use ink or ball point pen.
When marking your answers to multiple-choice questions, mark heavy, dark marks that completely fill the circle. Mark one answer for each question.
Erase completely any marks you wish to change.
Make NO STRAY marks on any page of your test booklet.
For the open-response questions, be sure you write your answers on the lines and spaces provided. Answers or parts of answers written outside the boxed areas cannot be scored.

The following is the guide that will be used to evaluate your responses to the open-response questions in this test.
KENTUCKY GENERAL SCORING GUIDE
SCORE POINT 4
	· You complete all important components of the question and communicate ideas clearly.
	· You demonstrate in-depth understanding of the relevant concepts and/or processes.
	· Where appropriate, you choose more efficient and/or sophisticated processes.
	· Where appropriate, you offer insightful interpretations or extensions (generalizations, applications, analogies
SCORE POINT 3
	You complete most important components of the question and communicate clearly.
	You demonstrate an understanding of major concepts even though you overlook or misunderstand some less-important ideas or details.
SCORE POINT 2
	You complete some important components of the question and communicate those components clearly
	You demonstrate that there are gaps in your conceptual understanding.
SCORE POINT 1
	You show minimal understanding of the question.
	You address only a small portion of the question
SCORE POINT 0
	Your answer is totally incorrect or irrelevant
BLANK
	· You did not give any answer at all.

READING

This test section contains one reading selection with a total of five multiple-choice and one open-response (short answer) questions. Please mark your answer for each multiple-choice question by filling in the circle completely for the correct answer. Mark only one answer for each question. If you do not know the answer make your best guess.

In “Snowflake Bentley” the author gives information about the life of Wilson Bentley. The author also gives opinions about some of the information.

Snowflake Bentley

Wilson Bentley was born on a farm in Jericho, Vermont, on February 9, 1865. He loved to learn all he could about the world around him. By the time he was fifteen, Bentley has read an entire encyclopedia.

One day, Wilson Bentley’s mother game him something that would change his life forever. It was a microscope. The microscope made small things look larger and opened up a whole new world for Bentley.

More than anything else in the world, Bentley loved snow. That winter when snow began to fall, he went outside with his microscope. Catching a few snowflakes, he looked at one through the microscope. What he saw amazed him. The ice crystal had a beautiful design. He examined another and another. Each one was different. He wished there were a way to preserve them so other people could see them.

For three winters Bentley tried drawing the snowflakes, but they often melted before he could finish. Then one day he read about a camera with its own microscope. It costs a lot of money. Bentley’s parents spent their saving to buy that camera for his seventeenth birthday. It was a great gift.

Bentley spent the next fifty years photographing snowflakes. He became known all over the world as “Snowflake Bentley”.

Bentley dreamed on one day producing a book of his snowflake photographs. It would be his gift to the world, he said. His dream was finally realized in 1931 when Snow Crystals was published. The book contained 277 pages of Bentley’s photographs. The photos were both interesting and beautiful.

Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley died in 1931, just a few weeks after Snow Crystals was published. Bentley’s book was a great gift to the world. During his lifetime he photographed 5,381 snowflakes. Today, people who want to learn about snow crystals often begin by reading Bentley’s book.

Text from Unit 5 Skills Test-

Scott Foresman

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Mark your answer choices for multiple-choice questions 1 through 5 in the spaces provided.

1.	This passage is mostly about:
	Ο	Receiving gifts
	Ο	Giving gifts
	Ο	Using gifts for the benefit of others
	Ο	Using gifts for selfish reasons

2.	The correct meaning of the word preserve is:
	Ο	Make sure something lasts
	Ο	Stop something from going bad
	Ο	Protect somebody
	Ο	Keep something safe

3.	From this passage we know that Wilson Bentley was:
	Ο	A good reader
	Ο	A hard worker
	Ο	A good photographer
	Ο	All the above

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4.	The words Snow Crystals are in italics because:
	Ο	They look better
	Ο	They are important
	Ο	They are the name of a book
	Ο	None of the above

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	Ο	Type answer here.
	Ο	Type answer here.
	Ο	Type answer here.
	Ο	Type answer here.

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Read all parts of the question before you begin. Write your answer to open response question 6 in the space provided on the next page.

Snowflake Bentley
6.	A. List three facts the author gives about Wilson Bentley in the selection. B. Identify one opinion in the selection and explain why it is an opinion.

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READING

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