(MCAS) ELA Grade 4

English Language Arts
Score Point 3 `
A. Dogs help people with disabilities by being a set of ears and eyes. Dogs can be a
set of ears by using their ears, because their owner could be deff. Dogs can be
a set of eyes by using their eyes, because their owner might be blind.
B. Dogs help pacients in hospitals and people in nursing homes by having the
people pet them to bring down their blood preshure. Also by greeting them and
helping them. For instenss there was a 90-year-old women who stopped caring
about life. All she did was stay in bed. But once dogs became frequient visitors,
she was always up and dressed, eager to greet the dogs.
Score Point 2 `
One way dogs can help the handicapped by opening doors, pushing elevator buttons,
and bring them from place to place. The last way is dogs can help the physically
disabled is help them croos streets, help them with noises, and help them getting on a
boat, or getting in cars.
Score Point 1 `
Dogs can help handicap with there eyes so they don’t walk into stuff like cars or doors!
Score Point 0 `
No response.
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