{"id":655,"date":"2019-02-25T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2020-05-16T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T00:20:00","slug":"quick-and-easy-reading-assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/quick-and-easy-reading-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and easy reading assessment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>SIOP Component: Review and Assessment<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Activity: <\/b><b>Know\/Don\u2019t Know<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use this low prep, highly interactive activity to determine reading comprehension. This activity can be used in many different ways, but for purposes of reading assessment, here\u2019s how you do it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Directions: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose an article for the students to read.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a piece on scorpions that has been written at the grade 3 level, but can be used for all students gr. 3-12.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/files\/2019\/02\/SCORPIONS.docx\">SCORPIONS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to reading: Use a simple organizer like the one below. In small groups, have students talk about what they know about the topic. Have them fill in the organizer.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 356px;\" width=\"1157\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t Know<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I learned<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the groups are discussing, the teacher quietly circulates and listens in on the conversations asking prompting\/probing questions, modelling tier 2 words, etc. This is a good time to make notes on what the students already know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have students silently read the article on their own. After reading, discuss the article as a large group. You could start with what do you know now? Have the students use evidence from the text to support their answers. This teaches them to provide evidence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use: For formative reading assessment, as well as preview or review. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIOP Component: Review and Assessment Activity: Know\/Don\u2019t Know Use this low prep, highly interactive activity to determine reading comprehension. This activity can be used in many different ways, but for purposes of reading assessment, here\u2019s how you do it. Directions: Choose an article for the students to read.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a piece on scorpions that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8586,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}