Intended as a supplement to the Reading/Literature Released Exercise Set, 1979-80 Assessment, this collection exemplifies students' written responses to thirteen open-ended exercises. Each exercise, its objectives, subobjectives, administration guidelines, and national performance levels on the exercise, are documented. Detailed, age specific scoring rationales and guidelines are given for each exercise. One exercise may require very specific responses such as the identification and substantiation of character traits, whereas another might require any of a number of responses. In the instance of latter, guidelines are given for identification of the relevance of the response for classification of the response type, for example: the student may retell the passage; his response may be emotional, personal, egocentric, analytical, comparative or evaluative; he may generalize; or he may make inferences. (AEF) Primary type of information provided by report: Assessment Instrument (Released Exercises); Results (Respondent Examples) (Exercise Level).