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Sparks of Excellence

Sparks of Excellence. What it means and how to chart your growth. What is “Sparks of Excellence”?. The “Sparks of Excellence” chart is a way for you to track your growth and improvement over the course of the school year.

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Sparks of Excellence

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  1. Sparks of Excellence What it means and how to chart your growth

  2. What is “Sparks of Excellence”? • The “Sparks of Excellence” chart is a way for you to track your growth and improvement over the course of the school year. • It will help you track your reading strengths and where you may need to focus on improving

  3. How do we use it? • After your pre-test, we will discuss which questions fit into each category. You will keep track of how many questions in each “strand” you answered correctly and chart it on the graph.

  4. Gathering, Analyzing, and Evaluating • This helps you identify how good you are at reading a selection and finding evidence within the passage. • These questions usually require you to go back and find the evidence in the passage.

  5. Analyzing Primary Sources • When you analyze a primary source, you are undertaking the most important job of the historian. There is no better way to understand events in the past than by examining the sources--whether journals, newspaper articles, letters, court case records, novels, artworks, music or autobiographies--that people from that period left behind. • You need to know where the source came from and the time period in which it was written to fully understand these questions

  6. Scoring for Gathering/Evaluating and Analyzing Primary Sources # Correct 1=33% 2=67% 3=100% 3 Questions: • 29 • 33 • 37

  7. Synthesizing Information/Drawing Conclusions • This part of reading helps you identify how good you are at reading a passage and finding connections within the passage. • You maybe asked to guess or hypothesize what might happen next based on what you read, or you may be asked to combine main points made in the reading.

  8. Scoring for Synthesis/Conclusions # Correct 1=16% 2=33% 3=50% 4=67% 5=83% 6=100% 6 Questions: • 10 • 11 • 12 • 19 • 20 • 40

  9. Main Idea & Details • This is the famous “main idea” of a passage. What is the MAIN idea? What idea or overall impression are you left with after reading the passage? • This can often be found in the first paragraph as a main idea/thesis statement.

  10. Scoring for Main Idea # Correct 1=25% 2=50% 3=75% 4=100% 4 Questions: • 3 • 5 • 14 • 31

  11. Purpose, POV, Persuasive Appeal • Why did the author write the passage? To inform? Persuade? Describe? Narrate? • The POV (Point of View) often helps the author make his/her purpose clear. • If the writing is persuasive, this strand helps you identify how an author uses writing to be persuasive.

  12. Scoring for Purpose/POV # Correct 1=9% 2=18% 3=27% 4=36% 5=45% 6=55% 7=64% 8=73% 9=82% 10=91% 11=100% 11 Questions: • 2 • 4 • 7 • 8 • 16 • 17 • 23 • 24 • 30 • 34 • 39

  13. Comparing and Contrasting • This helps identify how good you are at making connections and realizing the differences between items or information is a passage. • You may have to go back into the passage to find these answers!

  14. Scoring for Compare & Contrast # Correct 1=50% 2=100% 2 Questions: • 35 • 38

  15. Cause & Effect • This identifies how well you understand the relationships between events in a passage. • Look for “signal” words and phrases like: as a result, because, if/then statements • You may need to go back into the passage to find those connections!

  16. Scoring for Cause & Effect # Correct 1=50% 2=100% 2 Questions: • 18 • 21

  17. Analyzing Words/Text & Context Clues • These questions often go something like: “In the sentence ‘I quickly ran to class’ what does the word quickly mean?” Vocabulary in Context questions check to see how well you can determine the meaning of a word based on the words around it. You may not always have to re-read the passage to identify this, but a good vocabulary helps!

  18. Scoring for Words/Context # Correct 1=14% 2=29% 3=43% 4=57% 5=71% 6=86% 7=100% 7 Questions: • 1 • 9 • 13 • 22 • 25 • 26 • 27

  19. Now What Do We Do? • Now that you know what each strand means, you will create a chart that shows your progress throughout the year. • You will create a goal on the front of the page and determine how to meet that goal • Keep your “Sparks of Excellence” page in the FRONT of your notebook. It should be available to you and your teachers at all times.

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