2015 Released Items: Grade 5 Performance-Based Assessment Narrative Writing Task
The Narrative Writing Task focuses on one literary text. Students read the text, answer questions, and write a narrative
response that is tied to and draws on the text.
The 2015 blueprint for PARCC’s grade 5 Narrative Writing Task includes five Evidence-Based Selected
Response/Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response items as well as one Prose Constructed Response prompt. This
document includes a complete Narrative Writing Task from an online summative assessment form.
Included in this document:
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Answer key and standards alignment
PDFs of each item with the associated text
Additional related materials not included in this document:
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Sample scored student responses with practice papers
PARCC Scoring Rubric for Prose Constructed Response Items
Guide to English Language Arts/Literacy Released Items: Understanding Scoring
PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment: General Scoring Rules for the 2015 Summative Assessment
Note: Item 2184_A represents an item type that is no longer being developed for the PARCC ELA/literacy summative
assessment.
PARCC PBA Release Items Answer and Alignment Document
ELA/Literacy: Grade 5
Task: Narrative Writing Task (NWT)
Passage(s): from The Bread Winner
Item Code
Answer(s)
2181_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: C
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
RL 5.1.1
RL 5.1.2
RL 5.3.1
C249
RL 5.1.1
Item Type: TECR
RL 5.3.3
Any combination of the following, one answer for each character:
Sarah’s Contributions
“Please, Daddy,” Sarah cried, “let’s take the table. Besides, the front of
the store looks bare, and when the shop is open we can use the table as
a counter.”
OR
With brushes and soapy water, Sarah and Mama scrubbed it down to its
pale oak finish. Then they spread flour on top.
OR
Sarah took some of Daddy’s dough from the back, brought it out to the
big table, and started kneading it.
OR
Soon a small crowd gathered in the street outside the window to watch
her.
Mama’s Contributions
With brushes and soapy water, Sarah and Mama scrubbed it down to its
pale oak finish. Then they spread flour on top.
OR
Mama looked on and smiled. A minute later she brought out a pan of
dough and started making cinnamon rolls.
OR
“When we get settled in,” she said. “I might try my hand at cakes and
pies. Just a few at first, to see how they go. I used to be good at it.”
Daddy’s Contributions
Here, let me give you a hand.”
The two men placed the big dusty table in the front part of the store, in
full view of the large show windows.
OR
When Daddy Came out from behind the privacy curtain, Sarah expected
him to duck behind it, but he didn’t. When he saw all the people out
there, he grinned and waved. Leaning over the table, he scrawled a
message on a brown paper sack: OPEN AT NOON. He clipped it to the
red-checked window curtain with a clothespin, then disappeared into
the back of the store.
OR
A few seconds later he came out again with a big pan and set it down on
the table between himself and Sarah. He grabbed some dough and
started kneading it. Sarah couldn’t believe her eyes!
OR
“You were right,” Daddy said. “We needed this table.” Once in a while
he looked up and waved at the crowd on the street. “Pretty good
advertising, wouldn’t you say?” he asked.
2186_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: C
RL 5.1.1
RL 5.1.2
RL 5.2.1
2808_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: D
Part B: B
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A, C
Part B: A
RL 5.1.1
RL 5.1.2
RL 5.6.1
RL 5.1.1
RL 5.3.1
2184_A
2187
Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 4-5 Scoring Rubric
W 5.3
W 5.4-5.10
Item: 2181_A
Associated Text: "The Bread Winner"
Item: C249
Associated Text: "The Bread Winner"
Item: 2186_A
Associated Text: "The Bread Winner"
Item: 2808_A
Associated Text: "The Bread Winner"
Item 2184_A
Associated Text: "The Bread Winner"
Item: 2187
Associated Text: "The Bread Winner"