High School (9-12) Maze Probe 1 Standard Administration Directions Assessor Directions 1. Write/Type the following sentence on the board: When it is hot in the (summer, winter, can), I like to go swimming. 2. Say to students: You will need a pencil. I will pass out the Maze assessment face down. Please do not turn the paper face up until I ask you to turn it over. Please put your first and last name and teacher s name on the back of the paper. 3. Say to students: You will be doing some reading today. You will be asked to read a passage silently to yourself. When you come to three words that are bold and in parenthesis, you will circle the word that makes sense. Make sure that you CIRCLE the word that best fits. 4. Using the example sentence on the board, Say: Look at the example sentence on the board. This is one sentence that would be in an entire reading passage. It says, When it is hot in the BLANK, I like to go swimming. The three words that are bold and in parenthesis are: (summer, winter, can). What word would you circle? Yes, the word that makes the most sense is SUMMER. Read the entire sentence correctly. When it is hot in the summer, I like to go swimming. Model and emphasize that you CIRCLE the correct word, summer. 5. Say: You will have three minutes to read the passage and CIRCLE the correct word for each set inside the parenthesis. Please start at the beginning of the passage and circle the words that make sense. If you finish the first page, turn your paper to page 2 and continue working. Say: Are there any questions? 6. Set a timer for 3 minutes. 7. Say: Please turn your paper over. The title of the passage is Rescue the Wild Kingdom. 8. Say: You may BEGIN. Start the timer. 9. When the timer rings, say: Stop working please. Hold your paper in the air to be collected. Collect all the papers and thank the students for being wonderful test takers. 10. Use the Assessor Copy for scoring: Maze Comprehension Scoring Guidelines For Assessor Use Count each word that is circled correctly as 1 point. If a child misses 3 words in a row, DO NOT count any correct responses after the 3 consecutive incorrect answers. Add score to the GRASP database.
HS Maze Probe 1 Total Answers = 47 Assessor Copy Rescue the Wild Kingdom Last year in South Africa, 448 rhinos were killed by poachers, nineteen of those being endangered black rhinos. The pelts of Snow Leopards are (a, brick, troubled) regular item for sale in the (wind, markets, discover) of the Middle East as are (courageously, the, humor) skins of tigers. Tigers are also (husky, endangered, enter) because their bodies are used for (medicine, subtract, since) in Asia. Herds of African and (With, Asian, Warn) elephants were destroyed by hunters for (their, fin, across) ivory tusks. At last count, there (amid, are, cow) fewer than 12,000 speedy cheetahs in the (relax, world, puzzled) due to loss from poaching. Who (are, comfort, satisfy) these poachers and how do they (get, under, deep) away with illegally hunting these endangered (disappear, animals, mat)? Once the occupation of poor people, (careful, disapprove, poaching) has gone high tech, becoming a (big, let, safe) business around the world. Hunters now (use, representative, admit) helicopters and other types of military (envious, gear, fasten) to track down their endangered prey. (Come, Night-vision, Powder) scopes and silencer weapons have become (sand, alert, part) of their arsenal. With the increased (son, pencil, demand) for rhino horns and ivory in (Card, Asian, Eye) markets, poaching has nearly doubled. Many (ten, fully, of) these endangered animals live in huge (animal, dawn, thoughtfully) preserves which are very difficult to (into, keeper, guard) from intruders. Many
Page 2 times, the crimes (are, miniature, cross) discovered only after the target animals (merrily, noise, have) already been killed. Recently, an entire (family, heat, it) of gorillas was killed in the (than, span, at) of three days in Central Africa. (There, Reaction, Beg) is an increasing demand for gorilla (upset, woman, meat) in the markets of the Cameroons. (Gorilla, Size, Current) meat is considered a great delicacy (mad, beautiful, and) poachers are happy to supply it. (Chimpanzees, Mortally, Sail) are also hunted, killed and marketed (for, blade, ate) meat across Central Africa. There is (with, an, scale) enormous market for rare baby animals (winter, nobody, and) birds which poachers smuggle out of (became, day, the) country. Recently, a precious baby gorilla (was, amusement, enjoy) taken from the Congo to be (sold, rotting, unusual) to greedy foreign buyers. The operation (was, difficult, field) stopped by two rangers who posed (as, doubtfully, crawl) black-market gorilla buyers. They rescued the (pen, baby, weak) gorilla that was hidden in a (backpack, unripe, but), about to be sold for thousands (squeaky, of, brick) dollars. Poaching can only be prevented (if, strengthen, run) countries cooperate with each other to (tighten, justly, bitter) laws. By doing that, people who (huge, middle, are) behind businesses dealing with endangered animals (clean, wrote, can) be caught.
HS Maze Probe 1 Name Student Copy Score / 47 Rescue the Wild Kingdom Last year in South Africa, 448 rhinos were killed by poachers, nineteen of those being endangered black rhinos. The pelts of Snow Leopards are (a, brick, troubled) regular item for sale in the (wind, markets, discover) of the Middle East as are (courageously, the, humor) skins of tigers. Tigers are also (husky, endangered, enter) because their bodies are used for (medicine, subtract, since) in Asia. Herds of African and (With, Asian, Warn) elephants were destroyed by hunters for (their, fin, across) ivory tusks. At last count, there (amid, are, cow) fewer than 12,000 speedy cheetahs in the (relax, world, puzzled) due to loss from poaching. Who (are, comfort, satisfy) these poachers and how do they (get, under, deep) away with illegally hunting these endangered (disappear, animals, mat)? Once the occupation of poor people, (careful, disapprove, poaching) has gone high tech, becoming a (big, let, safe) business around the world. Hunters now (use, representative, admit) helicopters and other types of military (envious, gear, fasten) to track down their endangered prey. (Come, Night-vision, Powder) scopes and silencer weapons have become (sand, alert, part) of their arsenal. With the increased (son, pencil, demand) for rhino horns and ivory in (Card, Asian, Eye) markets, poaching has nearly doubled. Many (ten, fully, of) these endangered animals live in huge (animal, dawn, thoughtfully) preserves which are very difficult to (into, keeper, guard) from intruders. Many
Page 2 times, the crimes (are, miniature, cross) discovered only after the target animals (merrily, noise, have) already been killed. Recently, an entire (family, heat, it) of gorillas was killed in the (than, span, at) of three days in Central Africa. (There, Reaction, Beg) is an increasing demand for gorilla (upset, woman, meat) in the markets of the Cameroons. (Gorilla, Size, Current) meat is considered a great delicacy (mad, beautiful, and) poachers are happy to supply it. (Chimpanzees, Mortally, Sail) are also hunted, killed and marketed (for, blade, ate) meat across Central Africa. There is (with, an, scale) enormous market for rare baby animals (winter, nobody, and) birds which poachers smuggle out of (became, day, the) country. Recently, a precious baby gorilla (was, amusement, enjoy) taken from the Congo to be (sold, rotting, unusual) to greedy foreign buyers. The operation (was, difficult, field) stopped by two rangers who posed (as, doubtfully, crawl) black-market gorilla buyers. They rescued the (pen, baby, weak) gorilla that was hidden in a (backpack, unripe, but), about to be sold for thousands (squeaky, of, brick) dollars. Poaching can only be prevented (if, strengthen, run) countries cooperate with each other to (tighten, justly, bitter) laws. By doing that, people who (huge, middle, are) behind businesses dealing with endangered animals (clean, wrote, can) be caught.