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\nPennsylvania Department of Education Bureau of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction—September 2021  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nINFORMATION ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS  .................................... 1  \nIntroduction  ................................................................. 1  \nGeneral Introduction  ....................................................... 1  \nPennsylvania Core Standards (PCS)  ........................................... 1  \nWhat Is Included  .......................................................... 1  \nPurpose and Uses  ......................................................... 2  \nItem Format and Scoring Guidelines  .......................................... 2  \nTesting Time and Mode of Testing Delivery for the PCS-Based PSSA  ................. 3  \nEnglish Language Arts Grade 5  .............................................. 3  \nPSSA ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS GRADE 5  .......................................... 4  \nEnglish Language Arts Test Directions for Reading Passages and Questions  .............. 4  \nPassage 1  ................................................................... 6  \nMultiple-Choice Questions  .................................................. 8  \nEvidence-Based Selected-Response Question  ................................. 12  \nPassage 2  .................................................................. 13  \nMultiple-Choice Questions  ................................................. 15  \nPassage 3  .................................................................. 19  \nText-Dependent Analysis Prompt  ............................................ 22  \nText-Dependent Analysis Scoring Guideline  .................................... 26  \nEnglish Language Arts Test Directions for Conventions of Standard English Questions  ...... 44  \nConventions of Standard English Multiple-Choice Questions  .......................... 45  \nEnglish Language Arts—Sample Item Summary Data  ................................ 48  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  .......................................................... 51  \nINFORMATION ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS  \nINTRODUCTION  \nGeneral Introduction  \nThe Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) provides districts and schools with tools to assist in delivering focused instructional programs aligned with the Pennsylvania Core Standards (PCS)  . These tools include Academic Standards, Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content documents, assessment handbooks, and content-based item and scoring samplers  . This Item and Scoring Sampler is a useful tool for Pennsylvania educators in preparing local instructional programs by providing samples of test item types and scored student responses  . The item sampler is not designed to be used as a pretest, a curriculum, or other benchmark for operational testing  .  \nThis Item and Scoring Sampler is available in Braille format  . For more information regarding Braille, call (717) 901-2238 .  \nPennsylvania Core Standards (PCS)  \nThis sampler contains examples of test questions designed to assess the Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content aligned to the Pennsylvania Core Standards  . 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