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5th Grade Writing Test Links

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5th Grade Writing Test


Testing Dates
March 4, 2009 & make-ups on March 5.


The writing assessment for grade five consists of an evaluation of each student response to an assigned prompt. Students are assigned a topic from a prompt bank representing three genres: narrative, informational, and persuasive. Students are allowed approximately 120 minutes to write their essays. The writing assessment must be administered in one day. A make-up is also given the following day.


Three genres of writing:

Informational
Persuasive
Narrative



Analytic scoring in four domains:

Ideas
Organization
Style
Conventions