Florida Assessment of Student Thinking English Language Arts Reading Grade 5

In the play, Maya's line comes after a blue light hits the back wall. The sentence before hers can finish in the dark. The light, not the last word of that sentence, is her cue.

At the first full run she spoke as soon as the sentence ended. Her line landed on top of the music that still had to play in the dark. Ms. Ellison stopped the scene. "The sentence can end with the wall still black. You come in when it turns blue."

On the next run Maya waited through the music. The wall turned blue after a short breath. Then she spoke. The line sat where the light had put it.

The bake-sale card said cookies, suggested $1. A second grader held two quarters and started to put the cookie back. Jonah turned the card so she could see the word suggested.

"Suggested means the dollar is a guide," he said. "You can pay what you have. We write down the amount. The card does not say a dollar or no cookie." She paid fifty cents and took one cookie.

The jar list showed fifty cents beside her initial. The class could still count the money. The word on the card was what kept the missing half-dollar from sending her away.

The bean by the window grew to 14 centimeters, and its stem was thick. The bean on the dark shelf grew to 22 centimeters, and its stem was thin enough to bend. Both plants were the same age. The chart had a column for height and a column for stem.

Nadia pointed at 22 and said the shelf plant had won. Ms. Chen tapped the second column. "Taller is one fact. A stem that bends is another. Won depends on which column you mean."

The note under the chart said the shelf plant had stretched toward the doorway light. The window plant had stayed shorter and stood up. Neither column erased the other.

Bus stop 6 used to be the north corner of Pine and 3rd. The new route sheet still calls it stop 6, and it places that stop on the south corner. The number stayed. The corner moved.

Amir waited on the north corner because that was where stop 6 had been all year. The bus pulled up across the street. Students on the south corner boarded. The driver did not cross over.

Amir read the sheet on the way home. Stop 6 was printed next to south. The old habit and the new corner were not the same fact, even though they shared a number.

In the museum case, a stone blade looked smooth. A visitor said it must be new. The label said the blade came from the dark soil under the clay, the oldest layer in that dig.

A bent nail in the same case was rusty and rough. The label put the nail in the top layer, the newest soil. It looked older because rust is easy to see. The layer said it was not.

The guide told the class that shine and damage are looks. The layer is the clock for those objects. A smooth blade from the bottom layer is older than a rusty nail from the top.

The piece was eight lines long. At the end of line 4, two dots sat beside a double bar. Those dots send the player back to the start of line 2 for one extra pass. After that pass, the player goes on to line 5.

Priya played from line 1 straight through line 8. The piece sounded short, and line 2 never returned. Mr. Dalton pointed at the dots. "They are not a picture in the margin. They are one trip back, not a loop that never ends."

The second time, she played lines 1 through 4, returned to line 2, played through line 4 again, and then continued to line 8. The extra pass was the part the dots had asked for.

The garden map draws each row from east to west. At noon the shadow then falls along the path between rows, not across a line of different plants. The long lines on the paper, the ones running north to south, are the paths.

Luis laid his string north to south because those lines looked longer. At noon the shadow crossed one plant after another in his string. The plants at the south end sat in shade from the plants at the north end.

He moved the string to match the short east-west marks. The longer line had been the path. Length on the paper was not the same thing as a row.

The meet stays outside unless lightning is within 8 miles. The class counts the seconds between the flash and the thunder, then divides by 5. That quotient is the distance in miles. Loudness is not part of the rule.

During the first storm, thunder came 20 seconds after the flash. Twenty divided by 5 is 4. Four miles is inside the limit, so the meet moved into the gym.

The next week, thunder came 50 seconds after the flash. Fifty divided by 5 is 10. Ten miles is outside the limit. The thunder was loud, and the meet stayed on the field. The count, not the noise, had made both decisions.

The lost-dog card lists a medium dog, a white chest, and a blue collar with a round tag. The last line says the collar is the mark that separates this dog from other dogs with a white chest.

At the park, Lena saw a medium dog with a white chest and a red bandana. It had no collar. She had the number half-dialed. Then she read the last line again and put the phone down.

A white chest was on the card, and it was also on the dog in front of her. The card had already said that match was not enough. The bandana was not on the card at all.

The recipe says to fold the egg whites in with a spatula, ten turns. Folding keeps the air that was beaten into the whites. A spoon stirred through the bowl knocks that air out. The recipe does not offer the spoon as a second method.

The class split one batch. The stirred bowl baked flat. The folded bowl rose and stayed tall. Both bowls had the same whites, the same flour, and the same oven.

Ms. Ortiz wrote the result on the board: same batter, different motion. Ten turns of the spatula were the method. Faster stirring was a different method, and it made a different cake.

On this trail, one yellow mark on a tree means stay on the path you are on. Two marks, one above the other, mean the trail turns at the next fork. The wide dirt is not a vote. The marks are.

Ben saw the double mark and stayed on the wide path because it looked like the main trail. It ended at a creek with no bridge. His map said the turn at the double mark stays on the ridge.

He walked back to the two marks and took the narrow fork. That fork climbed and stayed dry. The wide path had been the one the marks told him to leave.

The rabbit chart has two times: a scoop at 8 in the morning and a scoop at 3 in the afternoon. Each scoop is level. "Twice a day" on the chart means two meetings with the bowl, not two scoops poured at once.

Omar filled the scoop twice at 8 and skipped 3, because twice had sounded like a bigger breakfast. The rabbit ate one scoop's worth and left the rest. By afternoon the leftover pellets were soft.

Ms. Brooks reset the bowl to one level scoop and pointed at the two clock times. The amount and the schedule were separate lines. He had added them together.

Friday's paper said the soccer score was 2–4, and it said the first number was the home team. Saturday's paper printed a small box: Correction. The score was 4–2. The first number is still the home team.

Readers who kept only Friday's article had the goals reversed. The teams had not switched. The earlier pair of numbers was the mistake. The box did not say the game had been replayed.

The home team had four goals, and the visitors had two. Saturday's line is the one that counts because it was printed to replace the line before it.

The bridge sign says the weight limit is 3 tons. It applies to one vehicle. A class of twenty students walked across. Their teacher did not weigh them, and the sign did not ask her to.

The delivery truck is marked 4 tons. The driver pointed at the students on the far side and said they had crossed, so the truck could too. The limit is not a comparison between a truck and people on foot.

The truck stayed off the bridge and took the long road. The class had never been the thing the sign was measuring.

The seed packet says 60 days to harvest. A note on the back says those days start when the sprout shows, not when the seed goes into the ground. The packet prints both dates so the two counts are not mixed.

These seeds went in on May 1. Sprouts showed on May 10. Beside a May 10 sprout, the packet lists July 9. Beside the crossed-out words "from planting," it lists June 30, which is 60 days after May 1.

June 30 would be the harvest only if the count began in the soil. For this packet, July 9 is the date that matches the sprout. The earlier date is there so a reader can see which rule was rejected.

The library owns two copies of the same novel. One is on the open shelf. The other is at the desk with a slip that says Priya. Her hold is the desk copy. The shelf copy is free for someone who does not have a hold.

Sam saw the shelf copy and told Priya the book was available, so she did not need the desk. Priya checked the slip. Her name was on it. Taking the shelf book would not cancel that slip, and taking the desk book without her name would skip her.

Sam borrowed the shelf copy. Priya took the one with her slip. Two copies, and only one of them was hers.

The program was printed on Tuesday. It lists Elena as the robin. On Wednesday Elena was ill, and the understudy, Chris, took the part for that night. The program was not reprinted.

A note on the door says the robin tonight is Chris. It does not say the Tuesday program was wrong on Tuesday. It says tonight's cast has changed.

An audience member who reads only the program will look for Elena. The door note is the later fact, and it is the one that matches the person who walks on. The printed name remains Tuesday's cast.