In this performance assessment, students will demonstrate text analysis skills, specifically finding evidence and elaborating on the connection between evidence and theme. Students will be asked to read a short piece of literature, find evidence in the text that supports a provided theme, and provide an explanation for how each piece of evidence demonstrates the theme.
Students will be able to independently read the story, provide three pieces of evidence such as quotes or paraphrases from the passage, write a brief, one- to two- sentence elaboration/explanation for at least two pieces of evidence, and comment on how evidence connects to a given theme.
This assessment is best carried out in the second semester following instruction on identifying theme, finding evidence, and elaborating on evidence.
In this performance assessment, students will demonstrate text analysis skills, specifically finding evidence and elaborating on the connection between evidence and theme. Students will be asked to read a short piece of literature, find evidence in the text that supports a provided theme, and provide an explanation for how each piece of evidence demonstrates the theme.
Students will be able to independently read the story, provide three pieces of evidence such as quotes or paraphrases from the passage, write a brief, one- to two- sentence elaboration/explanation for at least two pieces of evidence, and comment on how evidence connects to a given theme.
This assessment is best carried out in the second semester following instruction on identifying theme, finding evidence, and elaborating on evidence.
| Big Ideas | Competencies |
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A. Reading LiteratureStudents can read with purpose, understand and analyze evidence in literature to construct meaning in increasingly complex texts. |
A1Students can use several pieces of evidence to support inferences and analysis of how details of a text interact with each other (stories, dramas, and poems), as well as contribute to a theme of a text. |
Below are analytic teacher rubrics. The column on the left shows the dimension that is being measured in the student’s performance. The levels across the top row indicate the performance level in the dimensions. Occasionally all dimensions and performance levels are exemplified by multiple students in a single recording.
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Inference |
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