SmARTer Response Tool Lesson

What does Evidence/ Elaboration mean?

• Sherlock Holmes created this word

• integrate details that support, explain, illustrate, or develop ideas.

• Stretching at the gym

• A new ride at Disneyland

Answer explanation

This trait measures students’ ability to select and integrate details that support, explain, illustrate, or develop ideas. Students should elaborate these details—that is, explain and connect them, guided by the writing purpose and audience needs.

True/ False:

For informative/explanatory and opinion/argumentative writing purposes, these details come from source materials.

• True

• False

True/ False:

For narrative writing, this trait is called Development/Elaboration, and students are expected to integrate and develop grade-appropriate story elements such as descriptive details and dialogue. For these tasks, events and experiences are inspired by source materials.

• True

• False

When it comes to maintaining organization and purpose in your response, it is important to:

• response should be consistent with the task’s (aka question) designated purpose and the intended audience.

• write a strong introduction and conclusion

• in narrative writing, write a strong beginnings and ending

• use transitions help to create coherence

• all of the above

In the performance task, students are:

• presented with a collection of questions and activities connected to a single theme or scenario.

• presented with a collection of questions and activities connected to a single theme or scenario

• presented with a collection of questions and activities connected to a single theme or scenario.

• presented with a collection of questions and activities connected to a single theme or scenario.

• all of the above

True/ False: Spelling does not matter when writing a constructed response

• True

• False

Answer explanation

One of three traits scored for the ELA performance task full write, this trait measures a student’s ability to demonstrate command of grade-level conventions of standard English: grammar usage (including sentence formation), capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

True/ False:

Grammar and punctuation does not matter when it comes to writing a constructed response.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

One of three traits scored for the ELA performance task full write, this trait measures a student’s ability to demonstrate command of grade-level conventions of standard English: grammar usage (including sentence formation), capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

The prompt is _________.

• a new movie by Pixar

• the text provided to the student that requests their response.

• what soldiers do when marching

• a really long word

A prompt includes________.

Select two answers

• a poem

• a specific task that students complete in their writing response.

• some contextual information

True/ False: “Purpose” is the context for a piece of writing, or what the writer intends to accomplish.

• True

• False