Assessing and Teaching Reading Comprehension and Writing K-3

by Hibbard, K. Michael

• ISBN13: 9781930556430
• ISBN10: 1930556438
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Eye on Education

Summary

Will help your K-5 students develop their abilities to read fiction and non-fiction, use thinking skills, describe sequence

Table of Contents

Table of Contents	v
A Roadmap to This Book	1	(10)
Objectives for This Chapter	1	(1)
A Graphic Overview of This Book	1	(1)
The Topics for Each Chapter	2	(2)
Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing	4	(7)
Teaching and Assessing Reading Comprehension through Writing Sentences, Paragraphs, Stories, and Multiparagraph Expository Writing	11	(44)
Topics in This Chapter	11	(1)
Reading Is a Developmental Process	11	(1)
Leveled Books	12	(1)
Leveled Books and Grade Level	12	(1)
Books Used with This Chapter	12	(2)
A Student's Work Reveals His or Her Level of Reading Comprehension	14	(1)
Writing Process	14	(2)
Thinking-Skill Verbs and Reading Comprehension	16	(2)
Thinking-Skill Verbs and Pre-Writing	18	(1)
Behaviors That Support Writing	18	(3)
Traits of Writing	21	(2)
The Options for Assessment Tools	23	(1)
Analytic and Holistic Rubrics for Writing Narrative and Expository Paragraphs	23	(2)
Analytic and Holistic Rubrics for Narrative and Expository Multiparagraph Writing	25	(1)
Using Benchmarks for Student Writing	25	(1)
Set Targets for Performance without Overwhelming the Students	26	(3)
Collecting the First Benchmarks to Use	29	(1)
Creating Performance Tasks That Call for Writing	29	(1)
Embedding the Writing Process in the Performance Task	30	(1)
Specialized Graphic Organizers to Support Multiparagraph Writing	31	(1)
Ideas for Performance Tasks That Ask for Writing	32	(10)
Creating the Performance Tasks from the Ideas	42	(3)
Performance Tasks for Sid and Sam	42	(1)
Performance Tasks for Firefighters	43	(1)
Performance Tasks for Happy Birthday	43	(1)
Performance Tasks for Peeping and Sleeping	44	(1)
Performance Tasks for Amanda Pig and Her Big Brother Oliver	44	(1)
Performance Tasks for A Chair for My Mother	44	(1)
Performance Tasks for Jackie Robinson	45	(1)
Creating Assessment Lists for Performance Tasks That Require Writing	45	(4)
Assessment Lists for Happy Birthday	45	(1)
Assessment Lists for Sid and Sam	46	(1)
Assessment Lists for Firefighters	46	(1)
Assessment Lists for Peeping and Sleeping	47	(1)
Assessment Lists for Amanda Pig and Her Big Brother Oliver	47	(1)
Assessment Lists for A Chair for My Mother	47	(1)
Assessment Lists for Jackie Robinson	48	(1)
Ideas for Assessment List Items	49	(1)
Performance Tasks and Assessment Lists Are Learning Activities as Well as Opportunities for Assessment	49	(1)
Making Adaptations for Students at Risk	50	(1)
Glossary	51	(4)
Benchmarks	51	(1)
First-Draft Writing	51	(1)
Final-Draft Writing	51	(1)
Independent Writing	52	(1)
Interactive Writing	52	(1)
Level of Performance	52	(1)
Student Dictionary	53	(1)
Types of Writing	53	(1)
Word Wall	54	(1)
Word Web in Centers	54	(1)
Writing Centers	54	(1)
Assessment Tools and Performance Tasks for Writing	55	(64)
Topics in This Chapter	55	(1)
Graphic Organizers for Pre-Writing	55	(64)
Teaching and Assessing Reading Comprehension through Retelling	119	(14)
Topics in This Chapter	119	(1)
Retelling Is a Strategy To Assess Comprehension	119	(3)
Retelling Using All Four Levels of Reading Comprehension	122	(1)
A Menu of Questions to Engage Students in Retelling	122	(1)
Reading Comprehension Profiles for Benchmark Books	122	(7)
Analytic Rubric for Assessing Retelling	129	(2)
References	131	(2)
Connecting Standards and Themes to Performance Tasks	133	(1)
Topics for This Chapter	133	(1)
Standards for English Language Arts	133	(3)
Themes, Essential Questions, and Focus Questions	136	(1)
Fiction	137	(2)
Nonfiction	139	(2)
Why Are Themes, Essential Questions, and Focus Questions Written as Questions?	141	(1)
Ideas for Performance Tasks and Their Connections to Standards and Themes/Essential Questions	141	(4)
Planning Thinking-Skill Verbs for Performance Tasks	145	(2)
Using a Performance Task Planning Form	147	(3)
Creating Assessment Lists for Performance Tasks	150	(1)
Graphic Organizers Used for the Performance Tasks in This Chapter	151	(33)
References	184	(1)
Little Bear Books	184	(1)
Spiders	184