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Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment

Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment. Harcourt Storytown Series For Third Grade. ASSESSMENT: Weekly Assessments are given every fifth or sixth day of reading instruction Theme Assessments are given at the end of each fifth week of instruction.

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Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment

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  1. Tips for Reading and Reading Assessment Harcourt Storytown Series For Third Grade

  2. ASSESSMENT: • Weekly Assessments are given every fifth or sixth day of reading instruction • Theme Assessments are given at the end of each fifth week of instruction.

  3. Weekly tests will cover the reading selection with one written response, the focus skill of the week, phonics/spelling, the strategy of the week, the robust vocabulary, and grammar.

  4. The written response will be an open-ended question, asking the student to use details and information from the story.

  5. Assessment questions will include some recall of the story, but will often require more critical thinking. Questions about the characters may ask about how a character feels or acts, not just what a character does in the story.

  6. Key Words and Phrases: • Most likely to happen next? • Most likely to feel/tell? • How the parts of the story are alike? or different? • The biggest problem? • The main reason? • the most important lesson? • The author’s purpose? • The type of story (genre) ?

  7. Robust Vocabulary

  8. Focus Skills • Characters & Setting • Locate Information • Fact & Opinion • Main Idea & Details • Sequence • Cause & Effect • Make Inferences • Make Predictions

  9. Types of Genre • Realistic Fiction (p. 20)- tells about characters and settings that are like people and places in real life • Expository Nonfiction (p. 88)- gives information about a topic • Autobiography- is the story of your life written by you • Biography (p. 116)- is the true story of a person’s life that is written by another person • Nonfiction (p. 148)- gives facts or other true information • Historical Fiction (p. 160)- is a made-up story that is set in the past and has people, places, and events that or real or could be real • Folktale (p. 256)- is a story passed down through time by word of mouth

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