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Most questions for Grade 3 OAKS , Develop an Interpretation, asks students to predict what would most likely happen next, the main ideas of the passage and cause and effect of why an event happened.

Grade 3Oregon State Released Practice TestsBooklet # 3-2Specified State Standards Listed Under:Develop an Interpretation (Includes Informational and Literary Text)

The Test Samples in this Booklet were taken from the Oregon State Department of Education WEB Site, unless otherwise noted.Slide2

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BlankTeacher Information page:Most questions for Grade 3 OAKS , Develop an Interpretation, asks students to predict what would most likely happen next, the main ideas of the passage and cause and effect of why an event happened.Grade 3Oregon State Released Practice TestsDevelop an Interpretation (Includes Informational and Literary Text)Other state practice tests may be included as credited. Any other state practice released test included aligns with Oregon’s OAKS format and standards.O.D.E. Standards in this booklet include:(Note: These specific standards are assessed under the English/Language Arts Standards heading: Develop an Interpretation or D.I. on OAKS.)EL.03.RE.30 Distinguish cause-and-effect and fact and opinion. EL.03.LI.07 Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author of illustrator portrays them. EL.03.LI.10

Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in literary text.

EL.03.LI.08

Predict probable future outcomes or actions.

EL.03.LI.09

Determine and discuss the underlying theme or author's message in literary text.

Note: Although these standards are NOT Power Standards they are strongly assessed on OAKS in literary text: Slide3

Page 13Page 2ALL ABOUT GLOWWORMS

Read the beginning of ALL ABOUT GLOWWORMS by Gerry Sherman to find out where they live.EVERYONE KNOWS THAT WORMS wiggle and squirm and live underground. But did you know that there are worms that glow? These are called glowworms. They are found only in the Waitomo Caves of New Zealand.Imagine yourself on a visitor’s tour of these caves. You have to ride in a boat because a river runs through the middle of the caves. Better put a sweater on because it’s chilly inside. And don’t forget to take off your sunglasses: it’s also dark.Now where would you look for the worms? In the dirt? But there isn’t anything but rock and water. On the walls? Close, keep guessing. Give up? Why, they are right over your head on the ceiling.That’s right—the glowworms make their home on thecave’s ceiling. There are so many of them that they sparkle like thousands of stars in the night sky.How can you see the worms in the caves?Visit the caves early in the morning.Use the guide’s flashlight.The worms give off light.The worms are everywhere.Think of the title and what you have read. The rest of this article probably tellsan exciting adventure in the caves.more information about the glowworms.more information about stars in the night sky.how to paddle a boat.Miguel laughed and said, “About what to bring in for our orange Monday.”Why did Miss Loloma think it was a “blue” Monday?It was dark and gloomy outside.She was very sad.The color blue reminded her of blue sky.She wanted to sing cheerful songs.What kind of person is Rita?sad foolish shy cleverSlide4

Page 12Page 3MORNING GIRL

by Michael Dorris tells of a twelve-year-old Native American girl who welcomed Columbus and his crew when they first came to the New World in 1492.I SWAM CLOSER to get a better look and had to stop myselffrom laughing. The strangers had wrapped every part oftheir bodies with colorful leaves and cotton. Some haddecorated their faces with fur and wore shiny rocks on theirheads. Compared to us, they were very round. Their canoewas short and square, and, in spite of all their dipping andpulling, it moved so slowly. What a backward, distant islandthey must have come from. But really, to laugh at guests, nomatter how odd, would be impolite, especially since I was thefirst to meet them. If I was foolish, they would think they hadarrived at a foolish place.“I won’t make a mistake,” I told She Listens. “I won’t betoo good, and I won’t say too much because I might choosethe wrong words.”I kicked toward the canoe and called out the simplest thing.“Hello!” One of the people heard me, and he was so startled that he stood up, made his eyes small, as fearful as I had been a moment earlier. Then he spotted me, and I waved like I’ve seen adults do when visitors arrive, my fingers spread to show that my hand was empty.The man stared at me as though he’d never seen a girl before, then shouted something to his relatives. They all stopped paddling and looked in my direction. “Hello,” I tried again. “Welcome to home. My name is Morning Girl. My mother is She Wins the Race. My father is Speaks to Birds. My brother is Star Boy. We will feed you and introduce you to everyone.”“That sounds fair,” said Miss Loloma. “If you bring something as special as a blue rose, we’ll have an orange Monday.”“It will never happen in a million years,” said Miguel.But Rita smiled and said, “You should start thinking of something orange to bring to class.”The next Monday, everyone came to class wearing or carrying the blue things they had collected.Miss Loloma had on a blue cape. She also brought a small bear made of smooth blue stone. Miguel had a bluebird’s feather sticking in his hat. Elena had brought blue clay for people to make things with. There were blue marbles, blue whistles, blue trucks, and blue toy turtles. It was fun looking at all the blue things, but everyone was waiting for Rita and her blue rose.“We might have a long, long wait,” said Miguel, and everyone giggled.At last, Rita came in. She held up a beautiful rose. Its edges were blue, and it was covered with tiny blue dots. “Where did you get it?” asked Elena.“Anyone can change the color of a flower,” said Rita. “All I did was add blue food coloring to water and put a white rose in it. The rose soaked up the blue color with the water.”“The flower did the work,” said Paul. “It’s so beautiful,” said Cindy. “I’m going to try it,” said Elena.Miguel didn’t say anything. “What’s the matter, Miguel?” asked Miss Loloma. “I’m thinking,” said Miguel. “About what?” asked Elena.Slide5

Page 4Page 11 All the fat people in the canoe began pointing at me and

talking at once. In their excitement they almost turnedthemselves over, and I allowed my body to sink beneath the waves for a moment in order to hide my smile. One must always treat guests with respect, I reminded She Listens, even when they are as brainless as gulls.When I came up they were still watching, the way babiesdo: wide eyed and with their mouths uncovered. They had much to learn about how to behave.“Bring your canoe to the beach,” I shouted, saying eachword slowly so that they might understand and calmthemselves. “I will go to the village and bring back Mother and Father for you to talk to.”Finally one of them spoke to me, but I couldn’t understand anything he said. Maybe he was talking Carib or some other impossible language. But I was sure that we would find ways to get along together. It never took much time, and acting out your thoughts with your hands could be funny. You had to guess at everything and you made mistakes, but by midday, I was certain we would all be seated in a circle, eating steamed fish and giving each other presents. It would be a special day, a memorable day, a day full and new.I was close enough to shore now for my feet to touchbottom, and quickly I made my way to dry land. The air was warm against my shoulders, and there was a slight breeze that disturbed the palm fronds strewn on the ground. I squeezed my hair, ran my hands overmy arms and legs to push off the water, and then stamped on the sand.“Leave your canoe right here,” I suggested in my most pleasant voice. “It will not wash away, because the tide is going out. I’ll be back soon with the right people.”BLUE MONDAYDo you like Mondays? Here is a story by Amalia Spiegel that tells how one class got through their Mondays.That Monday, huge dark clouds were throwing great shadows over everything. It looked as if a storm were about to begin any minute. Miss Loloma said to the class, “Let’s choose a bouncy song to sing to cheer ourselves up on this blue, blue Monday.”Miguel raised his hand and asked, “What is a blue Monday,anyway?”Miss Loloma said, “Many people are sad on Monday because the weekend is over. Many people think that blue is a sad color, too.” Miguel didn’t like that at all and said, “Blue makes me happy, not sad. When the sky is blue, it means the sun is out, and nothing is better than a blue sky.”Most of the children in the class felt as Miguel did, so Miss Loloma said, “Why don’t we have a happy blue Monday? Next Monday, we’ll all wear or bring something blue to school.”Everyone liked this idea, except Rita, who said, “What’s sowonderful about blue? My favorite color is orange, so I want to bring in something orange and have an orange Monday.”Miguel said, “You had better bring in something blue. Everyone has to!”“All right, then,” said Rita, “I’ll bring a blue rose.”“There’s no such thing,” grumbled Miguel.“She must mean a paper rose,” said Elena.“No, I mean a real blue rose,” said Rita, “and if I bring one to class, may we have an orange Monday the next week?”Slide6

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The author describes the way the strangers are dressed…to make the reader think that they are more civilized than Morning Girl.to show how odd they look to Morning Girl.to make the reader admire their colorful clothing.to show the reader how wealthy they are compared to Morning Girl.What is the most likely reason that the strangers were pointing at Morning Girl and all talking at once?They were surprised to see Morning Girl.They were an impolite group of people.They wanted to get Morning Girl’s attention.They were laughing at Morning Girl.Soon the second egret came with many of the otheranimals. “Oh, Ella!” the other animals said. “What can we do to help you?”Before Ella could say anything, one of the elephants took charge. She sent the young elephants to get water for Ella. She told the egrets to fetch a special plant to help Ella feel better.The rest of the elephants stood around Ella. Many of them wrapped trunks with Ella, which is the way elephants hug. Ella ate the plant the egrets brought and drank the water from the young elephants. She slept the rest of the afternoon and all that night while the animals watched over her. The next morning, when Ella awoke, she got to her feet. The elephants cleared the way. The egrets flew around Ella while she walked.“Ella! Ella! Are you okay?” the egrets asked.“Oh, I will be fine,” Ella said, “as long as I know I canalways count on my friends.”The special plant in the story is MOST likea bed.a trumpet.some feathers.some medicine.At the end of the story the animals are happy becauseElla feels better.Ella goes to sleep.Ella is moving trees.Ella is eating insects.Slide7

Page 6Page 9THE THINGS WINGS DO

Did you think that insects only use their wings to fly? Read this article by Keith Waddington to find out some interesting facts about other ways wings can be useful.INSECT WINGS have many different shapes and colors. They also have different uses.Most insects have two pairs of wings, with one pairbehind the other. These wings are used for flying, of course. But wings can help an insect in other ways, too.FLYINGHow fast can an insect fly? That depends on the size and speed of the wings. Houseflies can go fast because they have small wings that flap quickly.The same is true for honeybees. A honeybee can flap itssmall wings 225 times each second, and it can fly fourteen miles an hour. That’s fast for an insect.But butterflies drift from flower to flower. They flaptheir broad wings slowly. Sometimes they glide withoutflapping at all. These big wings could break if the butterfly flapped as hard as a bee does.HARD COVERINGSWings are not just for flying. In fact, a beetle’s frontwings are not for flying at all. These two wings are hard.When the beetle rests or walks, they cover its soft body like two pieces of nutshell. These wings help protect the beetle from being eaten by birds.When the beetle flies, it holds its front wings out to thesides. With these hard wings out of the way, the beetle can fly with its small back wings.ELLA’S FRIENDSThis is a story about Ella, an elephant who is always kind and helpful to the other animals. Read what happens when Ella becomes sick.ELLA, AN ELEPHANT, walked through the grass while twoegrets, which are white birds, sat on her back. As she walkedthrough the grass, she stirred up bugs which the egrets ate.The egrets loved Ella, and so did all the other animals. Ellawas good and kind and helpful.When danger was near, Ella would use her long trunk likea trumpet to warn the rest of the animals. And even thoughher own young elephants were grown, Ella still took her turnlooking after a group of young elephants.One day, as Ella walked through the tall grass with theegrets on her back, the egrets noticed that Ella walked slowerand breathed harder than usual. “What’s wrong, Ella?” theyasked. “You act as if you do not feel well.”“I’m tired,” said Ella. “I’m just very, very tired.”“You worked too hard yesterday moving all those deadtree stumps with your long tusks,” the egrets said. “Youshould go home and rest.”“Maybe you are right,” Ella said. So the egrets flew off andElla went to lie under a tree.When Ella awoke, she felt worse than before she lay down.She was so weak she could not get up. The egrets saw her.One flew to her while the other flew to get help.“Ella!” the first egret yelled. “Just lie down. My friend hasgone to get help.”“Oh,” Ella said, “I hate to be such trouble.”

The first egret flew down by Ella’s head and stroked it

with his wing. “You are no trouble, Ella,” he said. “You are no

trouble at all.”Slide8

Page 7Page 8COLORS FOR HIDING

Some wings have colors and patterns that make theinsect hard to see.These wings look like the places where the insect rests.When the creature holds still, it doesn’t look like an insect. Itlooks like a leaf or stone or piece of bark. The colors help theinsect hide from animals that might eat it. This kind ofcoloring is called camouflage. Grasshoppers have camouflage. When they sit on plants, their wings look like the leaves around them. Some moths have wings with camouflage that looks like tree bark. They can rest on trees without being found.BRIGHT COLORSSome insects don’t hide at all. Instead, their wings havebright colors that can be seen from far away.Scientists say these wings have warning colors becausethe colors warn birds that the insects are not good to eat.The wings of the monarch butterfly have warningcolors of bright orange with black. A bird might eat one ofthese butterflies. But after the bad taste of that meal, thecolors warn the bird not to eat another one.Most people think wings are just for flying. I tell themabout these amazing uses.Which of the following sentences is an opinion, not a fact?Most people think wings are just for flying.When the beetle flies, it holds its front wings out to the side.Insect wings have many different shapes and colors.The colors help the insect hide from animals that might eat it.Based on what you have read, which of the following insects do you think would fly the fastest?grasshoppersmothsbutterflieshoneybees