2015 Released Items: Grade 6 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 6 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.
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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
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PARCC PBA Release Items Answer and Alignment Document
ELA/Literacy: Grade 6
Task: Narrative Writing Task (NWT)
Passage(s): Alice in Wonderland – Chapter 1 – Down the Rabbit Hole
Item Code
Answer(s)
3851_A
3850_A
3849_A
3853_A
3852
3845
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: B
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: C
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: B
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: B
Item Type: TECR
Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 6-11 Scoring Rubric
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
RL 6.1.2
RL 6.5.2
RL 6.1.2
RL 6.3.2
RL 6.1.2
RL 6.2.1
RL 6.1.2
RL 6.5.2
RL 6.1.1
RL 6.3.1
RL 6.2.3
W 6.3
W 6.4-6.10
3851_A
3850_A
3849_A
3853_A
3852
3845