Summative Assessment

 

Summative Assessments:

Objective:

The learner will be able to read non-fiction text, retell main ideas and important details to answer questions and organize a sequence of events and identify author’s purpose (R3C, CA 3  1.6, 2.4, 3.5).

 

Item

 

From the following list of tasks correctly organize a sequence of events:

Eat Lunch

Go Home

Go to Bed

Go To School

Eat Breakfast

Get out of Bed

Prepare for bed

Eat Dinner

 

(Organize a sequence)

(Identify Author’s purpose)

 

An author of a non-fiction text is writing a book about how to put together an airplane. Which of the following answers correctly identifies the author’s purpose for writing this book:

 

a.       To persuade

b.      To entertain

c.       To inform the reader

d.      To show pretty pictures 

 

 

(Read non-fiction to answer questions)

 

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

 

By the early 1900’s people were using all kinds of new things.  They had drinking straws, chewing gum, zippers, safety pins, fountain pens, postcards and even home sewing machines.  In 1903 the Wright Brothers were flying and Harley Davidson was making motorcycles.

 

What things were being used in 1900?

 

  1. airplanes
  2. safety pins
  3. computers
  4. velcro

 

 

 

Objective:

The learner will formulate key words and questions to investigate topics. (IL 1A, CA 3   1.1, 1.8)

 

Item

The following items were listed in a newspaper advertisement. Formulate one key word, which would describe all these items.

 

JEANS        

SHIRTS      

SHOES       

DRESSES   

 

Formulate one question you would like to ask about one the words above.

 

 

Objective:

The learner will be able to Locate information on key words in provided resources (IL 1B, CA 3  1.2, 1.4).

 

Item

Look at the following Table of Contents below.  On what page would you find information about prairie grass?

 

What does the prairie look like? ………..page 6

Why did people go to the prairie?………page 8

Did people have coolers?……………….page 10

Did people get lost on the prairie? ……..page 11

 

 

 

Objective:

The learner will be able to use details from the text to identify simple cause and effect, to draw conclusions, and to compare and contrast texts (R3C, CA 3  1.6, 3.5)

 

Item

Cause and effect

Choose an item that we have talked about from the past and explain how it has changed in the present.  Make sure and tell how and why you think it has changed.

 

 

Draw conclusions

Tell why you think that the item you chose is better now than it was in the past?

 

Compare

Choose one Venn Diagram from your journal.  State three ways that the past is the same as the present.

 

 

Contrast

Using the same Venn Diagram, state three ways that the past is different from the present.

 

 

Objectives: The learner will be able to read non-fiction text, retell main ideas and important details to answer questions and organize a sequence of events and identify author’s purpose (R3C, CA 3  1.6, 2.4, 3.5).

The learner will be able to use details from the text to identify simple cause and effect, to draw conclusions, and to compare and contrast texts. R3C, CA 3    1.6, 2.4, 3.5

The learner will be able to locate information on key words in provided resources. IL1B, CA 3    1.2, 1.4         

 

Performance Assessments: This Performance Task will take place over two or  three 50-minute sessions.

 

Student Prompt

Presenting The Information:

        

     The time has come to present your information to the President. Before we can see the President we must make our presentation.  Since the President does not have a lot of time, you will need to choose just one of the three key words or categories you have researched.  You should re-read all of your journal entries and then choose one area to use in creating your presentation.

 

The presentation will have two parts.  First you will need to fold your 12 X 17 paper into thirds.  Place a title for each section - the past, the present and the future.  Now pick one item and draw what it was like in the past, what it is like now in the present, and how you think it will look in the future. 

 

After you have finished the illustrations, you are ready for part two.  Under each illustration, write a paragraph about each item using the information you found in the text.  Be sure that your paragraph has a main idea and supporting details which describe the key word and tell how and why it has changed.

    

Since we collected our information from non-fiction text, you must display the author and title of your resources.