1. QUIZ 1 2 Term 4 Year Blueprint Text Question Numbers Response Type
Points Possible
Reading Comprehension
ACELT Describe setting.
Sam’s Crazy Adventure 1 SR 2
ACELT Describe the impact of setting on characters. 3
ACELT Describe the impact of setting on characters. 4 CR
ACELT Compare similar stories by different authors.
Outdoor Fun
Let’s Fly a Kite 5
ESR 6
ACELT Compare stories with similar central messages.
The Lion and The Mouse
The Dove and the Ant 7 8
ACELA Identify the moral of the story.
The Stag at the Pool 9
Grammar 10 11 12
Total
12  16
Term 4
QUIZ 1
Response Type Index
Selected Response (SR) Traditional multiple-choice question where students select one correct option.
Enhanced Selected Response (ESR) Multiple-choice response where students may select more than one correct option.
Constructed Response (CR) Students create a response such as writing/typing a sentence or math expression.
Extended Constructed Response (ECR) Students answer a question and explain their reasoning through words, pictures, or models.
Performance Task (PT) Students perform multiple tasks requiring the knowledge of multiple skills and concepts connected to a single outcome.
Year 2

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Blueprint
Blueprint
Read Sam’s Crazy Adventure and answer questions 1-4.
Text Statistics
Story:
Sam’s Crazy Adventure
Word Count: 80
Sam’s Crazy Adventure
Sam’s visit to the beach was not what he had planned. He had wanted to enjoy the sun and the ocean. But while on the sand, a crab bit his toe! Sam was so startled that he accidentally let go of his kite. Next, Sam tried snorkelling, but met some fish that were not very friendly. Sam felt like his entire Saturday was ruined. Sam ended up going home
with a sunburn, hoping the next visit would be better.
Learning Objective: ACELT Describe setting. 1
Where does the story take place?
Responses
Analysis of Responses
 along a river
Student did not determine where the setting take place.
 in a swimming pool
 at the beach
Correct Answer
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Where does the story take place?
along a river
in a swimming pool
at the beach 1
Learning Objective: ACELT Describe setting. 2
When does the story take place?
Responses
Analysis of Responses
 on a school day
Student did not determine when the story took place.
 on a holiday
 on a Saturday
Correct Answer
When does the story take place?
on a school day
on a holiday
on a Saturday 2
Learning Objective: ACELT Describe the impact of setting on characters. 3
What is the impact of the setting on the character?
Responses
Analysis of Responses
 Sam was bitten by a crab, lost his kite, met a mean fish and got sunburned because he was in the school canteen.
Student did not understand that the character’s actions (events in the story) are impacted by the setting.
 Sam was bitten by a crab, lost his kite, met a fish and got sunburned because he was at the beach.
Correct Answer
 Sam was bitten by a crab, lost his kite, met a mean fish and got sunburned because he was at a seafood cafe.
What is the impact of the setting on the character?
Sam was bitten by a crab, lost his kite, met mean fish and got sunburned because he was in the school canteen.
Sam was bitten by a crab, lost his kite, met mean fish and got sunburned because he was at the beach.
Sam was bitten by a crab, lost his kite, met mean fish and got sunburned because he was at a seafood cafe. 3
Learning Objective: ACELT Describe the impact of setting on characters. 4
What is another event that could happen in the story because Sam is in a beach setting
Sample Responses
1 point
Student provided a character action or event (different from the examples in the story) that could be done at the beach.
0 points
Student did not understand the setting or how character’s actions (story events) are impacted by the setting.
What is another event that could happen in the story because Sam is in a beach setting? 4

3. Read Outdoor Fun and Let’s Fly a Kite. Then, answer questions 5-6.
Blueprint
Read Outdoor Fun and Let’s Fly a Kite. Then, answer questions 5-6.
Text Statistics
Story:
Outdoor Fun
Word Count: 51
Outdoor Fun
Three children went to a birthday party at a park. Each of them was given a colourful balloon to take home. It was a very windy day. The wind started to wildly blow the balloons. The children ran in circles around the party guests trying to hold on to their balloons.
Text Statistics
Story:
Let’s Fly a Kite
Word Count: 55
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Let’s Fly a Kite
Sara was excited that it was a windy Sunday. She had just made a new kite at school. Kites need wind to fly, and the kite-flyer needs open space to run. So, Sara took her kite to the park. She ran across the grass watching the kite fly
higher and higher into the sky.
Learning Objective: ACELT Compare similar stories by different authors. 5
What is the same in the stories? Select all that apply.
Responses
Analysis of Responses
It is a windy day.
Correct Answer
They both take place at parties.
The student did not look closely at the image.
They both take place at a park.
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Learning Objective: ACELT Compare similar stories by different authors. 6
What is different in the stories? Select all that apply.
Responses
Analysis of Responses
The children and Sara are outside.
The student did not look closely at the image.
The children had balloons, and Sara had a kite.
Correct Answer
The children ran around the guests, and Sara ran across the grass.
What is the same in the stories? Select all that apply.
It is a windy day.
They both take place at parties.
They both take place at a park. 5
What is different in the stories? Select all that apply
The children and Sara are outside.
The children had balloons, and Sara had a kite.
The children ran around the guests, and Sara ran across the grass. 6
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4. Central Message: No act of kindness is ever wasted.
Blueprint
Read The Lion and the Mouse and The Dove and the Ant. Then, answer questions 7-8.
Central Message: No act of kindness is ever wasted.
Text Statistics
Story:
The Lion and the Mouse
Word Count: 88
Text Statistics
Story:
The Dove and the Ant
Word Count: 99
The Lion and the Mouse
adapted from Aesop’s Fables
An angry lion caught a mouse running across his face. Before he could eat the mouse, it begged the lion to set it free. The mouse promised to repay the lion’s kindness. The lion laughed at the idea and let the mouse go. Later, the lion was caught in a hunter’s net. The mouse came and gnawed the rope with his teeth. Although the mouse was small, he could still help the mighty lion.
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The Dove and the Ant
adapted from Aesop’s Fables
One day, an ant was looking for water. Finally, it came to a spring. To reach the water, she had to climb a blade of grass. On her way up, she slipped and fell into the water. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, a dove dropped a leaf into the water for the struggling ant. The ant climbed on the leaf to safety. Just then, a hunter nearby was trying to trap the dove. The ant quickly bit him on the heel. In pain, the hunter dropped his net. The dove was quick to fly away to safety.
Learning Objective: ACELT Compare stories with central messages. 7
What is the same in the stories? Select all that apply.
Responses
Analysis of Responses
Both take place in the water.
Student did not recognise that only one story takes place in the water. This is a difference not a similarity.
Both have a character being caught in a net.
Correct Answer
In both, each character gets saved.
Learning Objective: ACELT Compare stories with central messages. 8
What is different in the stories? Select all that apply.
Responses
Analysis of Responses
Only one has a lion
Correct Answer
Only one has a character being kind.
Student did not recognise that in both stories the characters show acts of kindness. This is a similarity, not a difference.
Only one begins with anger.
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What is the same in the stories? Select all that apply.
Both take place in the water.
Both have a character being caught in a net.
In both, each character gets saved. 7
What is different in the stories? Select all that apply
Only one has a lion
Only one has a character being kind.
Only one begins with anger. 8

5. Read The Stag at the Pool and answer questions 9.
Blueprint
Blueprint
Read The Stag at the Pool and answer questions 9.
Text Statistics
Story:
The Stag at the Pool
Word Count: 85
The Stag at the Pool
adapted from Aesop’s Fables
A Stag saw his reflection in a pool,
and admired his antlers, but he
did not like his small feet. Just
then, a lion appeared at the pool.
The Stag started to run from the
lion. But when he entered the
woods, his antlers became tangled in branches.
The Lion quickly came up and caught him. The
Stag thought, “I should have paid more
attention to my feet, they might have saved my life. But I
was too proud of my antlers.”
Learning Objective: ACELT Identify the moral of the story. 9
What is the moral of the story?
Responses
Analysis of Responses
 Always play fair.
Student selected the incorrect moral. Student did not connect the moral to the plot of the fable.
 Appreciate all the things you have.
Correct Answer
 Help others when you can.
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What is the moral of the story?
Always play fair.
Appreciate all the things you have.
Help others when you can. 9
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Write a sentence about you and your partner using the pronoun us. 10
Learning Objective: ACELA Identify and use pronouns. 10
Write a sentence about you and your partner using the pronoun us.
Sample Responses
1 point
Student provided a sentence correctly using the pronoun us.
0 points
Student did not understand how to correctly use the pronoun us.
Learning Objective: ACELA Identify compound sentences. 11
Select the correct conjunction for the compound sentence below.
Jordan needs to remember her coat, _____ she will be cold.
Responses
Analysis of Responses
 or
Correct Answer
 and
Student selected the incorrect conjunction for the compound sentence.
 so
Select the correct conjunction for the compound sentence below.
Jordan needs to remember her coat, _____ she will be cold. or
and so 11
Learning Objective: ACELA Identify concrete and abstract nouns 12
Which sentence below uses a concrete noun?
Responses
Analysis of Responses
 Her idea was a good one.
Student did not identify the sentence with the concrete noun.
 The birds chirped loudly.
Correct Answer
 Our holiday is next month.
Which sentence below uses a concrete noun?
Her idea was a good one.
The birds chirped loudly.
Our holiday is next month. 12
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