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Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment

Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment. Harcourt Storytown Series. ASSESSMENT: Weekly Assessments are given every fifth or sixth day of reading instruction Benchmark Assessments are given at the beginning, middle and end of the year.

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Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment

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  1. Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment Harcourt Storytown Series

  2. ASSESSMENT: • Weekly Assessments are given every fifth or sixth day of reading instruction • Benchmark Assessments are given at the beginning, middle and end of the year.

  3. Weekly tests will cover the reading selection with one written response, the focus skill of the week, phonics/spelling, the strategy of the week, the robust vocabulary, and grammar. Three grades are taken from each test. • The written response will be an open-ended question, asking the student to use details and information from the story.

  4. Assessment questions will include some recall of the story, but will often require more critical thinking. Questions about the characters may ask about how a character feels or acts, not just what a character does in the story.

  5. Key words used in the assessments : • Most likely to happen next? • Most likely to feel/tell? • How are parts of the story alike? or different? • The biggest problem? • The main reason? • The most important lesson? • The author’s purpose? • The type of story (genre)?

  6. Characters & Setting Locate Information Fact & Opinion Main Idea & Details Plot Author’s Purpose Compare & Contrast Theme Focus SkillsEach skill is taught and tested for a 2 week period

  7. Focus Skills cont’d • Sequence • Cause & Effect • Make Inferences • Make Predictions

  8. Reading Comprehension Vocabulary Characters- people or animals in the story Setting- where and when the story takes place Facts- something that can be proven Opinion- is a person’s thoughts or feelings about something Main idea- tells what the paragraph/story is mostly about (table top)

  9. Details- support the main idea with more information (table legs) Plot- is what happens in the story- the beginning, middle and end Author’s purpose (PIE)- is his or her reason for writing Compare- finding the similarities between two or more stories Contrast- finding the differences between two or more stories

  10. Theme- a common thread that links something together; sometimes the lesson learned Sequence- the order in which something happens Cause- the reason something happens Effect- what happens Make Inferences- when readers add what they already know to what the author has told them

  11. Make Predictions- what will happen next in the story, what will someone do next, or what will you find out

  12. Types of Genre • Realistic Fiction (p. 20)- tells about characters and • settings that are like people and places in real life • Expository Nonfiction (p. 88)- gives information about a topic • Autobiography- is the story of your life written by you • Biography (p. 116)- is the true story of a person’s life • that is written by another person • Nonfiction (p. 148)- gives facts or other true information • Historical Fiction (p. 160)- is a made-up story that is set in the past and has people, places, and events that or real or could be real

  13. Folktale(p. 256)- is a story passed down through time by • word of mouth • Legend (p. 274)- a historical story passed down through time • Mystery (p. 282)- the story has a problem to be solved • Fairy Tale (p. 20)- is a story that takes place in • make-believe world • Fable (p.324)- similar to a fairy tale but teaches a lesson • Play (p. 52)- a story that can be performed for an audience • Myth (p. 74)- an invented story from early history • Informational Narrative (p. 200)- present information in the • form of a story • Fantasy (p. 228)- is a story that could not happen in real life

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