School Improvement in Maryland

Answer Key Reading Grade 4 Public Release Items - Released March 2009

MSA Item Number Answer Grade Objectives Assessed
1 C 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
2 D 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
3 B 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
4 D 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
5 A 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
6 B 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
7 B 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
8 D 4 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words
9 A 4 1.D.3.b Use word structure to determine the meaning of words
10 C 4 1.D.3.b Use word structure to determine the meaning of words
11 C 4 1.D.3.b Use word structure to determine the meaning of words
12 B 4 1.D.3.b Use word structure to determine the meaning of words
13 A 4 1.D.3.b Use word structure to determine the meaning of words
14 D 4 2.A.4.a Identify and explain the author's/text's purpose and intended audience
15 C 4 2.A.4.a Identify and explain the author's/text's purpose and intended audience
16 4 2.A.4.c State and support main ideas and messages
17 B 4 2.A.4.d Summarize or paraphrase
18 D 4 2.A.4.g Draw conclusions and inferences and make generalizations and predictions from text
19 4 2.A.6.b Identify and explain additions or changes to format or text features that would make the text easier to understand
20 A 4 2.A.2.b Use graphic aids such as illustrations and pictures, photographs, drawings, sketches, cartoons, maps (key, scale, legend, graphs, charts/tables, and diagrams, other graphic aids encountered in informational texts
21 D 4 3.A.5.d Identify and explain stage directions and dialogue that help to create character
22 4 3.A.3.d Identify and analyze the characters
23 C 4 3.A.5.d Identify and explain stage directions and dialogue that help to create character
24 C 4 3.A.3.d Identify and analyze the characters
25 4 3.A.3.d Identify and analyze the characters
26 A 4 3.A.6.a Identify and explain main ideas and universal themes
27 A 4 3.A.3.d Identify and analyze the characters
28 4 3.A.6.a Identify and explain main ideas and universal themes
29 B 4 3.A.6.a Identify and explain main ideas and universal themes