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This guide outlines effective strategies for grading student responses in reading comprehension, particularly focusing on sequencing significant events and understanding the author’s purpose. It emphasizes the importance of identifying and numbering key events, utilizing annotation techniques, and providing clear reasons supported by details from the text. By adhering to specific grading criteria, students can enhance their ability to respond accurately and thoughtfully, ultimately achieving higher scores in their written responses.
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Strategies • Identify the main events as you read • Underline important events • Clarify Code • Mark the events on the reading before writing in the response box • Number the 5 events you think are significant Write them in order
3 Point Response • Response includes FIVE significant events listed in order • Does not repeat events
5 events Events in correct order
Reasons you won’t get a 3 Your answer… -does not have 5 significant events -does not have the events in order -is not written legibly
Strategies • Annotate the text • Underline important details • Use the Clarify code while you read • Ask yourself why the author wrote this piece • Write down your opinion next to details from the text that support it
3 Point Response • Response mentions two reasons for the article • Each response has a supporting detail from the text
Author’s Purpose • The author wants to explain how jokulhlaups are formed. Jokulhlaups result when natural ice dams underneath glaciers cannot contain the meltwater from the glacier. Detail of support
Reasons you won’t get a 3 • Your answer… • does not include TWO reasons the author wrote the article • does not include support from the text for each reasons