Elaboration: Score 4
Successfully links cause with effect; fully elaborates connections among ideas.
El Niño is terrible. It is a weather pattern. It causes tornadoes. It also causes drought and floods.
What is the best thing the student could do to get a better score in the category of Elaboration?
Describe tornadoes more clearly.
Explain the causes in more detail.
Include more effects of El Niño.