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Maine school educators may reproduce any portion of this document for noncommercial educational purposes without requesting permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced, copied or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, by others without the prior written permission of the Maine Department of Education.  \nDirections:  \nOn the following pages of your booklet are passages and questions for the  \nGrades 3–5 Maine Through Year Assessment Reading Item Type Sampler. Read these directions carefully before beginning this item type sampler.  \nThis item type sampler will include several different types of questions. Some questions are based on one or two passages. Multiple choice questions will ask you to select an answer from among four choices. Multiple Choice questions will ask you to select a single answer. Multiple Select questions will ask you to select multiple correct answers from among five or more answer choices. For some questions, there may be two parts, Part A and Part B, where each part has a Multiple Choice or Multiple Select question.  \nFor all questions:  \n• Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.  \n• You may use scratch paper to make notes.  \n• Be sure to answer ALL the questions.  \nWhen you come to the word STOP, you have finished the Grade 3–5 Reading Item Type Sampler.  \n1. Read the passage.  \nCamille was excited about Alma's party. She and Alma had been best friends since kindergarten. Finally, Saturday arrived. At the party, the two friends hugged and squealed with excitement.  \n\"Camille, come try one of my cookies! I made them all by myself!\" said Alma.  \n\"Sounds great,\" replied Camille. She took a cookie and opened her mouth for a big bite. Ouch! The cookie was as hard as a rock. Even though she had trouble swallowing, Camille smiled at her best friend.  \n\"Delicious!\" she said.  \nWhat do the words as hard as a rock help the reader understand?  \nA. The cookie was burned.  \nB. The cookie tasted like a rock.  \nC. The cookie looked like a rock.  \nD. The cookie was difficult to bite into.  \n4 Go on to the next page.  \n2. Read the passage.  \nfrom The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug  \n1 Chirpy found Mrs. Ladybug in the orchard. But strange to say, she didn't seem at all interested in his news.  \n2 \"I dare say I have a cousin in the garden,\" she told him. \"Ours is a big family. I have more cousins than I could ever count. They're as plentiful as the leaves on the trees. I can't stop my work to go and see this one. If I called on all my cousins I'd never have time to help Farmer Green.\"  \n3 Chirpy Cricket looked disappointed. He had expected Mrs. Ladybug to show great interest in what he told her. She certainly always thought that othersought to pay strict attention when she related the happenings about the farm. And she always wanted them to act surprised and pleased, too.  \n(from The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug by Arthur Scott Bailey) What causes Chirpy Cricket to be disappointed?  \nA. Mrs. Ladybug tells Chirpy Cricket that she comes from a big family.  \nB. Mrs. Ladybug is too busy to be interested in what Chirpy Cricket says.  \nC. Chirpy Cricket finds Mrs. Ladybug when she is working in the orchard.  \nD. Chirpy Cricket knows that Mrs. Ladybug wants others to pay attention to her.  \n5 Go on to the next page.  \nRead the passage. Questions 3–7 are about the passage.  \nOutdoor School  \n1 It was the night before Erik’s first day of outdoor kindergarten. The family was having dinner. Erik had been pestering Daniel with questions about school all day, just as he had every day for the last two weeks. 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