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Agree to Disagree The Agree to Disagree task allows students to demonstrate their ability to present their opinions and their reasons for their opinions. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are two sets of topic cards. This task is a part of the Oral Presentations task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Bike Accident The Bike Accident task allows students to demonstrate their ability to present oral interpretations and descriptions of observed events. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a video clip. This task is a part of the Oral Descriptions task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Book Brochure The Book Brochure task allows students to demonstrate their ability to scan to find information. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a four page book brochure Scene. This task is a part of the Silent Reading task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Book Club News The Book Club News task allows students to demonstrate their ability to scan to find information. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task is a four page brochure Arrow Book Club News. This task is a part of the Silent Reading task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Cats' Eyes The Cats' Eyes task allows students to demonstrate their reading comprehension skills. Students will complete this task working in statoins. The resource required for this task is a story sheet. This task is a part of the Silent Reading task series from 2000. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Chit Chat The Chit Chat task allows students to demonstrate their conversation skills and their ability to share information about themselves. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Oral Presentations task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Choosing a Book The Choosing a Book task allows students to demonstrate their ability to select reading material and present an argument to support their decision. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are two sets of six books. This task is a part of the Oral Responses task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Follow Me The Follow Me task allows students to demonstrate their clarity of explanation, completeness of instructions give, sequencing and organization of instructions to teams, and overall effectiveness in giving instructions. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a map, a mid chart and single bird car, a tangram picture and cardboard pieces, a circle picture and circle work sheet, and an Inventa model picture and four sets on Inventa construction kits. This task is a part of the Oral Descriptions task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Jokes and Riddles The Jokes and Riddles task allows students to demonstrate their ability to appreciate and use humor in oral communication. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resource required for this task is a set of four joke sheets. This task is a part of the Oral Responses task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Nils and Nellie The Nils and Nellie task allows students to demonstrate their ability to rearrange pictures to tell a story. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are four sets of picture cards numbered on the back. This task is a part of the Oral Presentations task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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