CDT Goal Setting and Practice Questions

Winter CDTs:

Fall Recap and Winter Goals

Can you win silent ball for our class Thursday? Listen up

Open Ended

Before we get started, what was something good from this past weekend or something you are looking forward to?

• Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Today's Agenda

1) Review Fall scores & categories

2) Set a goal for this week's CDT testing based on your fall scores

3) Review and practice a few question types

4) Tools to help you

5) Begin CDTs

Multiple Choice

What do your fall scores show?​ ​

• your starting point for an 8th grade skill

• your overall ability in a category

Skill Categories: What They Are

Skill Categories

• Key Ideas and Details: Literature

• Key Ideas and Details: Informational Text

• Craft and Structure: Literature

• Craft and Structure: Informational Text

• Vocabulary

-Devices an author uses to create meaning

(i.e. how point of view affects a story, how an author organizes ideas to create meaning, figurative lang. etc.)

Craft and Structure

-Main idea in a passage

-Inferences (i.e. what does a line show about a character)

-Theme & its development

-Author's purpose

-Plot development

Key Ideas & Details

Skill Categories (lit. and info)

VOCABULARY: determining a word's meaning from context

Poll

Which category/ skill do you think was your strongest?

• Key ideas and details: Literature

• Key ideas and details: Informational Text

• Craft and Structure: Literature

• Craft and Structure: Informational Text

• Vocabulary

Poll

Which category/ skill do you think was your weakest?

• Key ideas and details: Literature

• Key ideas and details: Informational Text

• Craft and Structure: Literature

• Craft and Structure: Informational Text

• Vocabulary

Let's see your results!

Remember:

• This was your starting point for 8th grade level skills

  • You're making a goal today to show the growth you've made!

• YOUR HARD WORK THIS YEAR IS PAYING OFF

• your scores are your scores; respect your peer's privacy!

  • Keep your score to yourself, and don't ask your neighbor what they got

Take a look at how you did in each category-- did your strengths and weaknesses match what you thought?

Figuring out your score & setting goals

These are the skills and areas we have worked with the most in Language Arts this year.

• Make a point-based goal (i.e. grow 100 points). Here are some ideas...

• Close to green? Aim for it!

• In the red? Level up!

• In the blue? Can you grow half a level?

Set a Goal for...

• Craft and Structure (literature)

• Key Ideas and Details (literature)

Eliminate distractions! Cross out wrong choices. Even removing one helps you focus in!

​​Cross Out!

Highlight key terms from the questions to focus in on what is being asked.

Highlight key ideas in the passage.

​​Highlighter

​TOOLS!

Lots of text staring you down?

Use the line guide to to chunk the reading or help you track your progress.

Line Guide

Tricky passage? Use the note pad to create a short summaries of paragraphs to make a note

​​Notepad

​TOOLS!

for main ideas and key details

Sample standards/ skills

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the passage best shows that the photography club requires members to be dedicated to their hobby?

• " ' I intend on taking my camera on a couple of my bike rides,' Joel revealed."

• " 'My dad told me that I can borrow his older digital camera to use for the club, Tyrese explained.'

• " ' I want to learn how to take photos of different elements of nature,' James replied."

• " Doc Rivers told us that we should practice taking photos at least thirty minutes each day,' Tyrese said."

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the passage best supports the inference that Taylor and Selena have much in common?

• Each girl thoroughly enjoyed being creative through art projects

• Selena wished that a girl her age would move in next door

• The girls sometimes met at the city library near their houses

• Taylor arrived with her parents in a dark green car

for craft and structure

sample standards/ skills

Multiple Choice

How do the reader's point of view and Selena's point of view interact to create the most suspense in the passage?

• Selena is very confident about her artistic skills, and the reader knows her attitude will remain the same

• Selena is trying hard to win the art contest, and the reader knows her friends are supporting her

• The students act excited about Selena's art project, but the reader knows that the students are cheering for the school's success

• Selena is getting positive feedback from the art judges, but the reader knows that there are more talented contestants to come

Multiple Choice

"After getting off the ride, Jason Kelce felt a little ill. That night at dinner, he ate like his stomach was the size of a pea."

How does the author use figurative language in the sentences?

• to suggest that Kelce ate very little at dinner

• to imply that Kelce lives outside the city

• to indicate that Kelce ate very slowly at dinner

• to show that Kelce likes to visit amusement parks

Open Ended

Silent Ball Question! 95% class accuracy needed!

What is one tool you can use to help you during the CDTs? (Hint, there were 4).

• Take your time

• Do your best

Let's get started