 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 1, 2, 3 and 4. 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 or playing soccer. 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.
Lesson 1 |
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Lesson 2 |
- Identifying and writing statements summarizing a
reading passage.
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Lesson 3 |
- Practice making inferences and predictions from
the clues and ideas in the reading passage
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Lesson 4 |
- Practice interpreting new words, phrases or
expressions from the context clues in the reading
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 1: Understanding theme or message and supporting
details
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Theme is
a message the author wants to share with the reader.
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It is usually a big idea about life or
about people.
- Other synonyms for theme are message, main idea, central
idea, big idea, moral.
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A theme is more than a word; it should
be stated in a complete sentence.
- Topic + author's attitude = Theme
- Questions
to ask when identifying theme:
- Has
the main character changed?
- What lessons has
he or she learned?
- Does the title reveal
anything special about the story?
- What is the conflict in
the passage?
- Does the narrator make
any key statements about life or people?
- Can this idea be supported
by details in the passage?
- Are all the author's choices
of plot, character, conflict connected or controlled
by this idea?
- There will always be supporting details in the
story or poem that prove the theme.
- The theme will make sense considering everything that
happens in the story or poem.
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Lesson 2: Summarizing Text
Lesson 3: Making Inferences and Predictions
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An inference is . . .
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a conclusion that can be figured
out from hints, clues, other information in a story,
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a smart guess, or an educated
guess based on what you know about the characters
and their situations,
- 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.
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Lesson 4: 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. 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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