Overview

For this assessment students will take on the role of a critic to analyze author’s choice within an informational text in a choice-based format.

More specifically, students will be asked to analyze a provided piece of primary text (determined by the classroom teacher), analyze it based on author’s choice using a provided graphic organizer, and create a critique by either recording a podcast (audio file), writing a newspaper review, or recording a mock social media post (video file).

Students will produce either an audio file (which must be converted to MP3), written document (either typed or handwritten), or video file (which must be converted to MP4). Final products must be scanned in or converted to a PDF for scoring purposes.

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Details

Big Ideas & Competencies

Big Ideas Competencies

B. Reading Informational Text

Students can read with purpose, understand and analyze information and evidence to construct meaning in increasingly complex texts.

B2

Students can analyze how the author’s creative choices contribute to the meaning of the work (e.g., word choice, sections of a text, inferences, etc.).

NOTE ABOUT ASSESSMENT RUBRICS

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.

Teacher Rubric

Dimensions Not Yet Meeting Expectations Meeting Expectations Exceeding Expectations

Analyzing Author’s Choice
  • Partially considers the reasoning and purpose behind the author’s selections in format, word choice, and organization.
  • Creates a basic analysis of the reader’s interpretation of the text based on the author’s choices.
No exemplars at this time.
  • Addresses the reasoning and purpose behind the author’s selections in format, word choice, and organization using properly selected evidence and reasoning.
  • Addresses the reader’s interpretation of the text based on the author’s choices by providing evidence and reasoning.
No exemplars at this time.
  • Fully and thoroughly considers the impact of the author’s choice by specifically referencing multiple aspects of the selection of format, word choice, and organization using sound evidence and reasoning.
  • Creates a clear and thorough interpretation of the text based on the author’s choice providing extensive evidence and reasoning.
No exemplars at this time.

Comprehension of Text
  •  Identifies a partial or inaccurate central idea in a text with inaccurate or unrelated text evidence.
No exemplars at this time.
  • Determines a central idea in a text and analyzes its development over the course of the text.
No exemplars at this time.
  • Determines and explains a central idea of a primary text and analyzes how it emerges and develops over the course of the text.
  • Make inferences and analyzes the connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.
No exemplars at this time.

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