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This short assessment focuses on students' ability to recall and infer a key idea from a brief informational passage about hands and thumbs. Use the ReadingFluencyQuestion recording to check fluency and phrasing; the single short-answer question assesses comprehension and evidence use. No extra materials are required. For the short-answer question, a correct or high-quality answer will (1) mention that hands help us write, hold things, or play games or will refer to the importance of thumbs for picking things up, and (2) use wording that clearly ties the response to the passage (for example, naming 'thumb' or 'write, hold things, and play games'). Mark answers that show accurate recall or a justified inference as correct; mark answers that are unrelated to the passage or factually incorrect as incorrect.