68 Practice Items

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1a. What do you like to do in the summer?
Call my friends and shoot baskets

4 implied subject
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1b. What do you like to do in the summer?
Riding my bike 3 short answer that implies
both the subject and the verb
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1c. What do you like to do in the summer?
Go my uncle house 2 intelligible phrase with
an implied relation to the prompt awkward
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1d. What do you like to do in the summer?
Play for friends every day 3 implied subject
substituting for for with changes the meaning
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1e. What do you like to do in the summer?
Sometimes I go to swimming pool

4 missing article the
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1f. What do you like to do in the summer?
In summer play with friend house and go park at
swings 2 response difficult to understand be
cause of awkwardness and omission/substitution of
words
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1g. What do you like to do in the summer?
Play baseball 3 short answer that is adequat
e to the task
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1h. What do you like to do in the summer?
Sunny and hot 1 no discernible relation to
the prompt
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1i. What do you like to do in the summer?
I like to read 5 complete sentence with a s
ubject and verb
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1j. What do you like to do in the summer?
My cat got a new toy 2 full, understandable
response with no relation to the prompt

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1k. What do you like to do in the summer?
In the park for play 2 implied relation to p
rompt awkwardness makes response difficult to
understand

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2a. What do you do to help out at home?
Mops and brooms 2 intelligible phrase with a
n implied relation to the prompt

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2b. What do you do to help out at home?
Go to my friends and help him with homework
3 understandable response with limited relat
ion to the prompt

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2c. What do you do to help out at home?
Room cleaning 2 awkward construction makes r
esponsedifficult to understand

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2d. What do you do to help out at home?
I clean the truck with my dad 5 complete sen
tence with a subject and verb

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2e. What do you do to help out at home?
Sometimes I clean the house and I broom the
floor
4 substitutes broom for sweep
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2f. What do you do to help out at home?
I had cleaning and put on table for to make
shining 2 awkward response makes it hard to
understand number of grammatical errors in
response
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2g. What do you do to help out at home?
Vacuum 3 one-word answer that is adequate to
the task

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2h. What do you do to help out at home?
To help out at home, I clean my house
5 complete sentence with a subject and verb

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2i. What do you do to help out at home?
Five rooms 1 no discernible relation to prom
pt

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2j. What do you do to help out at home?
Sometime I help my mom clean the dish and
sometime cook dinner, clean the pan, and sometime
go help her to washing clothes
3 a number of grammatical errors are present

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2k. What do you do to help out at home?
Watch my brother 3 short answer that is adeq
uate to the task

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3a. What will you do after school today?
After school I will do my homework and then play
with my friends 5 complete sentence with a
subject and verb

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3b. What will you do after school today?
Will go home, my mom, we put the food

2 awkward response causes confusion
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3c. What will you do after school today?
Going to a friends 3 short answer that is a
dequate to the task

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3d. What will you do after school today?
I do after school is do my homework and then
play
3 word order/grammar errors
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3e. What will you do after school today?
Silly 1 no discernible relation to the promp
t

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3f. What will you do after school today?
Ill eat breakfast with my sister
2 understandable response with no discernible
relation to the prompt does not show clear
understanding of time order
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3g. What will you do after school today?
Read 3 one-word answer that is adequate to t
he task

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3h. What will you do after school today?
Home for homework 2 vagueness of response ma
kes it difficult to understand

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3i. What will you do after school today?
Play with my brothers and then do my homework

4 implied subject
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3j. What will you do after school today?
Go with my friend to buy for some stuff for
tomorrow 3 implied subject/helping verb us
es for unnecessarily after buy

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3k. What will you do after school today?
After school my moms party for birthday
2 intelligible phrase with implied relation t
o the prompt awkward wording

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4a. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
Good for fly kite 2 intelligible phrase with
implied relation to prompt awkward wording


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4b. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
Today is really sunny and morning is cloudy

3 word omissions and verb tense error
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4c. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
Today the weather is sunny 5 complete senten
ce with a subject and verb

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4d. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
You will get wet 3 understandable response
with implied relation to prompt

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4e. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
The weather outside is warm and wind
4 uses noun wind rather than adjective windy


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4f. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
I play on the swings 2 full, understandable
response with no discernible relation to the
prompt

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4g. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
Hot 3 one-word answer that is adequate to th
e task

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4h. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
Cloudy and raining 3 short answer that is ad
equate to the task

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4i. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
Is sunny and is windy and is pretty out there
3 multiple thoughts connected with andbut no
subject ever referenced

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4j. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
Fast 1 no discernible relation to the prompt


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4k. Tell me what the weather is like outside.
A sunny is warm 2 awkward construction makes
the response difficult to understand

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5a. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Game is Monopoly 2 intelligible phrase with
implied relation to the prompt

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5b. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Need ball for throw to run around
2 implied relation to prompt response is ver
y awkward with several errors/missing words,
making it difficult to understand
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5c. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
To play one of my favorite games I need 2 teams,
a bat, and a ball 5 complete sentence with a
subject and verb

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5d. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Play Station and a game is Spongey Squarepant we
go in water and look at things
2 response is awkward a number of grammatic
al errors vaguely explains the game
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5e. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Kickball When the pitcher throw the ball, you
kick it and run 4 uses verb throw instead of
throws

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5f. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Read books 1 no discernible relation to prom
pt

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5g. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Bowling game the pins fall over
3 short answer doesnt really give a good ex
planation of how to play the game implied
relation to the prompt
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5h. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Eating supper 1 no discernible relation to t
he prompt

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5i. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
Baseball To play you throw the ball and catch
it somebody 3 errors in word order and verb
tense

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5j. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
I go to the zoo with my sister
2 full, understandable responsewith no relat
ion to the prompt

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5k. Tell me how to play one of your favorite
games.
To play tennis with ball and racket
3 response implies a subject and verb omits
the article a

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6a. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
Chairs student seat 2 awkward response makes
it difficult to understand

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6b. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
Globe, countries there 2 intelligible words
withimplied relation to the prompt

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6c. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
Pencil, to write with 3 short answer that is
adequate to the task

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6d. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
Desk for to put 2 vagueness of response make
s it difficult to understand

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6e. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
The chalkused for to put a words on a board
3 unnecessary use of for incorrect singular
article a used with plural noun words second
response lacks subject
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6f. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
I found a book and its used for reading
5 complete sentence with a subject and verb

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6g. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
The map, we can look and see where they are
3 understandable response with implied relati
on to prompt unclear pronoun referent forces
the listener to assume meaning
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6h. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
Talk 1 no discernible relation to prompt

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6i. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
I like to do the addition in math
2 full, understandable response has no disc
ernible relation to the prompt

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6j. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
I have a book in my room that I read
3 understandable response with limited relati
on to prompt student describes something in his
or her classroom (or a room at the students
home) and its use rather than in the testing room

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6k. Look around the room. Name something and tell
me what it is used for.
This test paper used for take a test
3 omits helping verb is substitutes for for
to

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Question Please ask me what my best friends
first name is.

• Who is your best friend
• 2 Inappropriate question in relation to
  prompt
  
• What is your best friend first name
• 4 Fails to use possessive form friends
• What is your name
• 2 Inappropriate question in relation to
  prompt
  
• What is your first friends name
• 2 Inappropriate question in relation to
  prompt
  
• My friend
• 1 Attempts to answer question
• F. What is the first name of your best friend
• 5 Correctly constructed no errors

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Question Please ask me to describe my favorite
sport.

• What sport do you want
• 2 Inappropriate question in relation to
  prompt
  
• Will you describe your favorite sport
• 5 Correctly constructed no errors
• What is your describe your favorite sport
• 2 Attempts to ask question but is not
  appropriate
  
• Soccer or baseball
• 1 Question answered, not constructed
• What is like your favorite sport is like
• 3 Attempts the question but response is
  awkward
  
• F. Can will you tell about your favorite sport
• 4 Uses will unnecessarily

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Question Please ask me what I like to do in my
spare time.

• In your spare time, what do you like to do.
• 5 Correctly constructed no errors
• What do you like in spare time
• 3 Word omissions make this response
  awkward
  
• C Play basketball
• 1 Question answered, not constructed
• What do you like to do on your spare time
• 4 Uses on instead of in
• What you do for your spare time
• 3 Appropriate but awkward question
• F. What is your spare time
• 2 Inappropriate question in relation to
  prompt