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Read Aloud The Read Aloud performance assessment includes two tasks and will be completed twice, once as a pre-assessment and once as a post-assessment, for a unit on nonfiction reading/information book writing. In Task1, students will listen to a book read aloud and answer questions about what the book has taught them about the subject. They will then sketch a picture and write a response to remember the information they have learned. In Task 2, students will write their own information book to teach others what they know and have learned about the subject. This assessment includes a rubric. |
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Read Independently The Read Independently performance assessment includes two tasks and will be completed twice, once as a pre-assessment and once as a post-assessment, for a unit on nonfiction reading/information book writing. In Task1, students will read a book and ask and answer their questions about the details that they red in the book. They can do this through writing and/or drawing. Students will then discuss the book and share out some of their questions and answers. In task 2, students will write their own information book to teach the important information they have learned. The last page of their book will include a big idea or observation. This assessment includes a rubric. |
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Resilience Cafe In this task, students will explore what it means to be resilient in life through connecting historical stories of resilience with stories from the comunity or even personal stories. This task includes: |
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Risky Business This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: Students will learn about lifestyle and genetic influences on health status and about the health insurance system in the United States. They will imagine a future healthcare environment in which technology has greatly advanced, treatment costs have escalated, and individual lifestyle and medical data are widely available to insurers. In this scenario, insurance companies routinely use this kind of information to create programs aimed at improving health outcomes, set insurance rates, approve or deny applications for health insurance, and reduce healthcare expenses. |
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Safety First This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: This unit focuses on the causes of workplace injuries and the consequences for workers, employers, and society as a whole. Students will investigate the biological and physical basis for injury on the job, regulations governing the work environment in the United States, and how public and government perception of who is responsible for work-related injuries has changed through history. |
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Schoolyard Habitat Project In this task, students work together to come up with a plan to implement that will create insect and animal habitats for the school. This task includes: |
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Second Grade Standards 5 and 8 Assessment The Second Grade Standards 5 and 8 Assessment includes three tasks using Save Water by Kay Barnham. In Task 1, students will use text features to locate information about saving water. In Task 2, students will use text features to locate information about the term "population". In Task 3, students will read a section of the story independently. They will then determine and explain in writing how the reasons the author makes on certain pages supports his main point. This assessment includes a rubric. |
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Seventh Grade Standards 5 and 8 The Seventh Grade Standards 5 and 8 includes two tasks and use King George III. In Task 1, students will write an explanatory essay in which they analyze how the author has structured a specific passage and the effect of that structure on the reader. In Task 2, students will explaining the meaning of a phrase in context of the reading and explain how it connects to the central ideas of the passage. This assessment includes a rubric. |
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Sixth Grade Common Core Assessment The Sixth Grade Common Core Assessment includes three tasks. In Task 1, students will watch a short video clip twice and fill out the outline in their booklet. They will then read an article and gather information for their essay. In Task 2, students will read another article and gather information for their essay. In Task 3, students will write an essay, using the information they gathered in Tasks 1 and 2, to write a convincing argument. This task includes a rubric and an alternate text with a task. |
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Third Grade Common Core Assessment The Third Grade Common Core Assessment includes two tasks and will be completed twice, once as a pre-assessment and once as a post-assessment. In Task 1, students will will watch a video followed by a turn-and-talk or class discussion. Then they will independently read a related article and answer key questions using bullet point text details. In Task2, students will write an editorial article arguing their opinion on a related topic. This assessment includes the Heads Up article, the Sugar Overload article, and a rubric. |
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