FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Complete a graphic organizer applying decoding strategies to problem-solve unknown words, develop vocabulary, and utilize during reading strategies.

 

 

 

 

Formative Assessment

 

Applying Decoding, Vocabulary, and During Reading Strategies

 

Scoring Guide

 

 

2 Points – Response includes two applied during reading strategies listed, two unknown words with definitions, and two affixes with root circled.

 

1 Point – Response includes at least one during reading strategy listed, at least one unknown word with definition, and at least one affix with root circled.

 

0 Points – Other

 

 

 

 

Directions:  Read the passage “Freedom and the Spirit of 1776”.  Then fill in the following chart. 

 

 

 

 

 

Decoding, Vocabulary and During Reading Graphic organizer

 

 

As I read I can see

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions I. asked while reading:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Infer: (Read between the lines.)

I understand now that

 

 

 

 

 

 

List two unknown words found during reading and state a definition.

 

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Definition:

 

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    1. Word:_________________________

Definition:

 

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List two words with a suffix or prefix and circle the root word for each.

 

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Freedom and the Spirit of 1776

 

 

                John Hancock’s signature on the Declaration of Independence is unmistakable.  John Hancock signed his name first and in very large letters.  It is said that he wrote extremely large because he wanted King George to be able to read it without using his glasses.  This may or may not be true, but we do know that Hancock was very courageous when he signed this document.  There was a reward out for John Hancock because King George labeled him as a traitor to England.  The British government even offered a reward for Hancock’s capture

 

                Each founding father who signed of the Declaration of Independence were in grave danger.  If the American colonies lost the war, the British would charge them of working against the King and the British government.  This would, in fact, be called an act of treason, and such acts of treason were punished by death.  Benjamin Franklin had a good sense of humor in spite of the danger.  When it was his turn to sign he said,  “We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.”

 

                Each of the signers was willing to risk their lives because they believed in the ideals and principles written in that Declaration.  Thomas Jefferson, who later became President of the United States, wrote these famous words:

 

                “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

 

                The Declaration of Independence was the first was the beginning of our democracy.   Since 1776 it has been a model to nations around the world to build this kind of government for themselves.