Annotation: The reader answers “No” to the events of the play seeming believable and continues by offering text support about wedding clothes getting dirty and making the dirt stains appear to be flowers. Next, the reader states “a wedding the most important day in your life and you would want every thing to be perfect” followed by a personal assertion that the individual’s clothes got dirty, parents would want them washed. To improve this response, the reader should make a connection between ideas that are more grounded in text rather than in personal experience. An example would be to focus on the “perfect” idea associated with weddings and that converting stains to flowers is not perfect but a way to hide an imperfection.

Annotation: The reader answers “Yes” to the events of the play seeming believable and offers minimal text support about the kids’ participation in the wedding and the emotions associated with that kind of event. To improve this response, the reader might better support the emotions of excitement and happiness with specific text support. For example, there would be excitement and happiness with gaining a new family member and the big party that would follow the wedding.

Annotation: The reader does not definitively give a yes or no response to the events of the play seeming believable but does offer enough ideas that it may be assumed that the reader finds the events believable. The reader responds that often parents split up and then remarry other individuals, which their “kids may not like.” However, in this play, “the kids don’t mind so much.” To improve this response, the reader might offer ideas from the play that support why the kids don’t mind. For example, family members are happy about the wedding, the children in what will be the blended family all appear to get along with each other, and the bride’s daughter has always wanted brothers and sisters.

Annotation: The reader answers “Yes” and continues that “kids would be carefree and mess something up on an important day.” The reader offers that the kids staining their wedding clothing is believable, that an only child would want a brother or sister, and that a grandfather “would know how to fix things.” The response concludes with the reflection that older individuals “know a lot of things because they’ve been alive a lot longer.”

To improve this response, the reader should focus on text support that aligns with the stated idea that kids are prone to “mess things up” on important days. The support that best fits is about staining their clothes; continued support would address how those clothes were stained in the first place, which relates to the idea of being carefree. While this statement comes from the text, the idea of wanting a brother or sister does not support the reader’s assertion. Grandpa knowing “how to fix things” relates peripherally to the stained clothes but needs to be more specifically stated. When those adjustments in text are made, the reflection about those who are older knowing more things works better as further evidence of comprehension.