Kansas Reading Assessment Review

1. Kansas Reading Assessment Review Hirt Winter 2013 Student Edition

2. Narrative Reading (Fiction) • Reading Comprehension Activities

3. Narrative Reading • Find a narrative story (fiction). Read the story. Answer the questions below. • Check for Understanding Activities • What is the main setting of the passage? Be sure to include: environment, time of day or year, historical period, situation, place. • Find a cause and effect relationship. • What was the last thing that happened in the story? • What caused character to change?

4. Narrative Reading The author's main purpose for writing the passage is to A) inform the reader about __________________. B) persuade the reader to ___________________. C) entertain the reader with a story about _______. D) persuade the reader to _______________. Author’s Purpose Games

5. Narrative Reading Tell or write a paragraph about the characters and important details including the important event from the beginning, details from the middle, and what happened at the end. Character, Setting, Plot Activities

6. Narrative Reading • Pick your favorite character. Make a T chart. Tell the characters actions vs. consequences. Be sure to include characters’ physical traits, personality traits, and feelings. Explain reasons for the characters' actions and the consequences of those actions. • Character Activities

7. Word Parts Find a word with a prefix. Write the word. Knowing the meaning of the prefix helps the reader understand that the word means ____. • Prefixes : de-, en-, co-, bi-, tri- • Prefix Games Find a word with a suffix. Knowing the meaning of the suffixhelps the reader understand that the word means ________. • Suffixes: -ish, -ible, -ate, -ance, -able • SuffixGames

8. Expository Reading • Find an expository story (nonfiction). Read the story. Answer the questions below. • What is the main idea of the passage? • What is the setting in the beginning? • Find a cause and effect relationship. • Main Idea Activities

9. Expository Reading The author's main purpose for writing the passage is to A) inform readers of _________________. B) entertain readers with a story about ______________. C) persuade readers to _______________.

10. Expository Reading According to the passage, find and explain how two things are alike? Cause and Effect Activities Compare and Contrast Activities

11. Expository Reading Find a sentence from the passage that is an opinion? Fact and Opinion Activities

12. Expository Reading The passage is mainly about____. Main Idea Activities  Write a strong retell from a section in the passage. Be sure to include all important details from the beginning, middle, and end.

13. Expository Reading Find these items in your passage: • Graph • Chart • Table of contents • Picture • Caption • Map • Index • Heading/Subheading • Purpose of the subheadings is to organize information. How do they help you understand the reading? Text Feature Activities

14. When a student encounters an unknown word or phrase, he should be able to use the clues from the surrounding words to figure out the meaning of the unknown word or phrase. • Context Clues • Book Buddy

15. The student knows how adding beginnings or endings to words change the meaning of the word. • Prefix/Suffix Game • Rooting Out Words Game • Race to Ramses Game • Prefix Games • Suffix Game

16. The student is able to make a prediction or draw a conclusion about the text. • Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions • Making Predictions • What Comes Next • Inference Riddles • Picture Puzzle Prediction

17. The student should be able to tell how topics, themes, problems, characters, or relationships are alike or different. Interactive Venn Diagram Compare and Contrast Map Compare and Contrast WebQuest Cause and Effect PowerPoint

18. The student understands why the author wrote the text (to entertain or to inform). • Author’s Purpose • Author’s Purpose Practice • Author’s Purpose PowerPoint

19. The student understands the difference between fact and opinion. • Fact/Opinion Quiz • Fact/Opinion Game • Fact/Opinion PowerPoint