School Improvement in Maryland

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Standard 2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text

Indicator 4. Determine and analyze important ideas and messages in informational texts

Objective g. Draw conclusions and inferences and make generalizations and predictions from text

Assessment limit: From one text or a portion of the text or across multiple texts

Brief Constructed Response (BCR) Item
Read the article 'Fly High, Bessie Coleman' and answer the following question.

Explain what the information in the article shows about the job of performing in air shows. In your response, use information from the article to support your explanation.

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