In this performance assessment, students will read an excerpt from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, and they will choose one place in the story to add to it by writing a new paragraph that is 3-5 sentences in length. Then students will explain how this new part fits into the text’s overall structure.
This assessment can be used after students have learned about craft and structure, specifically related to the standard, “CCSS RL.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.”
Accommodations and scaffolds for this item could include use of a different text, text read-aloud, extended time, and chunking the task.
In this performance assessment, students will read an excerpt from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, and they will choose one place in the story to add to it by writing a new paragraph that is 3-5 sentences in length. Then students will explain how this new part fits into the text’s overall structure.
This assessment can be used after students have learned about craft and structure, specifically related to the standard, “CCSS RL.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.”
Accommodations and scaffolds for this item could include use of a different text, text read-aloud, extended time, and chunking the task.
| 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. |
A5Students can explain how chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure. |
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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Comprehension of Text |
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