Formative Assessment

English Language Arts
Reading Standards for Literature
RL.K.4: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

Introduction

• Students will match words to their corresponding pictures

• Allow students discuss times they have come across unknown words.

• Read an example, "Susie was upset when she saw she damaged the Blanket.

• Students will try to figure out what the word, "damaged," means and discuss the clues they use to help them.

• I will then explain why it is important to know how to figure out the meaning of unknown words.

Instruction

• I will read a caption accompanied by a picture of a boy on a scavenger hunt and use clues to figure out unknown words.

• Explain how students can use word clues and picture clues to help them figure out the meanings of unknown words.

• Students will listen to a sentences with corresponding pictures and fill in the blanks with the correct word.
  

Quiz

Students will respond to five questions where they match one of the "unknown" words learned and practiced in previous instruction to a corresponding image.

Match

Match the following Image with the Corresponding Unknown Word

Frightened

Outraged

Joyful

Exhausted

Damaged

• Frightened

• Outraged

• Joyful

• Exhausted

• Damaged

Review after Quiz

• Review and discuss all of the tools and strategies we did in class

• Explain how we can apply all of these resources to new "unknown" words we learn in class

• Discuss with students what they are struggling with and review these topics in class

Multiple Select

How do you feel about matching new unknown words to corresponding pictures?

• Confident

• Okay

• Need help

• Completely Lost