Common Assessment Vocabulary

What are you looking for when the questions says "Why are the events...important to the plot"

• looking for the event that happened that leads to the problem or the resolution of the story

• Its always talking about the problem

• It is the story's exposition

When I see "why" in the question, what do I look for?

• which one

• the reason

• the beginning

What is the problem?

• the end of the story

• the beginning of the story

• The conflict faced by the main characters

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

How do I determine the summary of a fictional story?

• Include key plot events from the Beginning, Middle and End of the story

• Include unimportant events from the Beginning Middle and End

• Include important events in any random order

• Only have events from after the exposition

What is the Author's Controlling Idea?

• The overarching idea or BIG IDEA the author wants to communicate

• The way the author controls the text

• Text features and text structure of the text

What is the Author's main purpose in informational text?

• to entertain the reader

• to provide information on their controlling idea

• to persuade the reader to read more

What does " authors of the two selections would most likely agree" mean?

• what is something both authors who wrote the passage would agree on, BASED on the information/ideas presented in their passages

• what is something that only one author who wrote the passage would agree on, BASED on the information/ideas presented in the passages

• what is something both authors who wrote the passage would disagree on, BASED on the information/ideas presented in their passages

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What does difference mean?

• How two things are the same

• how two things are different

• how two things share common ideas and information

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is a "selection"

• making up your mind

• when you pick something

• Another word for passage or article

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C