 Assessment
Review Objective:
This is your chance to show your understanding and skills
in comprehension. You have learned and practiced lots of skills
needed to be an effective reader. Now you can prove it to
yourself!
You will be asked to demonstrate your skills in areas practiced
in Lessons 11, 12, 13 and 14. There will be some multiple
choice and some short answer questions.
Let's do a quick review to be sure you're prepared to do
your best. Just think of it as a warm up, like before lifting
weights, playing soccer, or dancing. Warm up your brain with
a review of the objectives and tips from each lesson. Activate
what you already know so you do your best.
Read over the objectives and vocabulary for each lesson.
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Lesson 11
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Lesson 12
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Identify effective summary
statements from informational text,
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Practice writing statements
to summarize ideas from informational texts.
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Lesson 13
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Practice making inferences
and drawing conclusions from informational passages,
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Practice making predictions
from informational passages.
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Lesson 14
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- Practice interpreting new words, phrases
or expressions from the context clues in the informational
passage.
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Review the Tips and Tools
for each lesson. Remember, you'll find more information on each
lesson's page. This is just a summary of key points. This is
a good place to start, but you will also want to go back and
review the first page of each lesson.
Lesson 11: Understanding major ideas and supportive details
Clues to help you identify
major or important ideas:
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Look at the format of the article.
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Look at the beginning sentence of each
paragraph or the sub-titles under the illustrations.
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Think of one sentence describing what
the passage was about.
- Remember, there can be more than one major or important
idea in an informational text, depending on the length
of the reading, but they will be connected and usually build
upon each other.
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Think of the article in an outline
form. The major ideas would be the main headings; the
supportive details would be the sub-headings.
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A major or important idea is more than
a word; it should be stated in a complete sentence.
- Major ideas are always supported by details to
prove or explain the idea.
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Remember the definition of a supporting
detail? Let's review:
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A supporting detail is a fact, a statement,
a quote, or event, that holds up a major idea.
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Supporting details prove
the major or important idea.
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Think of the important idea as the
top floor of the Space Needle. The supporting details
are all the metal pieces holding it up.
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Or if the major idea is compared to
a football uniform, or a new outfit from the mall, the
supporting details would be the individual parts of
the uniform or outfit: helmet, shoes, jersey, or bracelet,
skirt, socks.
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If the major idea is a completed puzzle
where you can see the whole picture, the supporting
details are the individual pieces. When they are all
put together, the picture is complete.
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Lesson 12: Summarizing Text
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The main skill in summarizing is to figure
out what is important or
essential in the text.
What questions can I ask to figure out how to write a
summary?
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Lesson 13: Making Inferences and Predictions
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An inference is . . .
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a conclusion that can be figured
out from data, facts, or other information in a text,
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a smart guess, or an educated
guess based on what you know about the information
presented,
- developed from information the author does not directly
state, or come right out and tell the reader; the reader
is expected to figure it out, or infer.
A prediction is . . .
Effective readers use predicting to get actively
involved with a text. A prediction is:
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something skilled readers to all the time
to get involved with the text.
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a smart guess, or an educated
guess, about what may happen as a result of information
presented in the text;
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based on what you know about the
topic, and what the writer has given you as facts, data,
and information;
- information the writer does not directly state, or come
right out and tell the reader;
- a great way to be a partner with the writer, almost like
having a discussion about what might happen as a result
of this information.
How do I know my inference or prediction is correct?
- As you continue to read, a correct inference or prediction
will continue to make sense;
- look for other facts to support your idea or add to
it, and
- notice anything that contradicts (goes against) the
guess, inference, or prediction. If this happens, just
revise your idean to match the new data or information.
- At the end of the text, the inference or prediction you
made should still make sense.
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Lesson 14: Interpreting Vocabulary
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Unfamiliar words, phrases or expressions can be generally
be figured out from the context of the reading passage.
The context of a word or phrase is its environment,
or the words that surround it (even
in this sentence if you didn't know the word "environment,"
you could figure out it means the words that "surround
it"). Context clues are made up of
synonyms, definitions, descriptions, and several other kinds
of specific information helpful to understanding the meaning
of what is read.
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If you have time, you might skim over the examples for each
lesson.
Skim the Rubrics section of this course to review
tips on answering multiple choice and short answer questions.
Be sure you are comfortable with the criteria for scoring
and evaluating short answer questions because scoring your
writing will be part of your responsibility.
When you are all warmed up and have about an hour, go ahead
and demonstrate your effective-reader skills!
Assessment
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