(MCAS) ELA Grade 4

English Language Arts
Score Point 3 `
There are a lot of steps a cotten flower has to do before it grows cotton. Every flower
on a plant is very white. After a little wile the flower is pink, the red. After three days
the plant dies, then the flower is pushed on a nothe green cotton ball. After some
months it grows to the size of a ping pong ball. In the fall the plant is four feet. Some
of the bolls show their cotton. The cotten begins to drie up and fluff. It is to start
harvest.
Score Point 2 `
In the spring the farmer must plant the cotton seeds. Then they wiat a kouple of
weeks for them to bloom. First they bloom into nice pink flowers then to red. After red
it dies and the cotten is ready to be harvested.
Score Point 1 `
First it is a seed. Then when it is two months it starts to bloom. Finally it dies and
then turns into a new, green cotton boll.
Score Point 0 `
a. One reason is because it costs less to harvest cotton fibers then most other fibers
used to make cloth
THE MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM: 39
Release of Spring 2000, 2001 & 2002 Test Items
Rev. 06/03 srm