Informational Reading Session 5: Mid-Assessment

Session 5: Mid-Unit Assessment Teaching Points Readers apply reading and writing strategies and emerging knowledge on a topic.

Session 5: Mid-Unit Assessment Mid-Assessment Task Readers apply reading and writing strategies and emerging knowledge on a topic. Students apply their analysis skills as they read two texts that represent ideas about or examples of protest or civil disobedience. They write three paragraphs: a summary of each text and a paragraph of response that details their interaction with the texts. Prompt: Perform a multi-draft read with your texts. Annotate the texts, applying the strategies you have practiced already in this unit. Next, write a paragraph summarizing each text. Write a third paragraph that extends your thinking by combining two or more of the following ways to interact with text: connections to another text questions that emerge historical and/or socio-cultural connections point of view writer’s craft and/or structural decisions personal connections  

Session 5: Mid-Unit Assessment Prompt: Perform a multi-draft read with your texts. Annotate the texts, applying the strategies you have practiced already in this unit. Next, write a paragraph summarizing each text. Write a third paragraph that extends your thinking by combining two or more of the following ways to interact with text: connections to another text questions that emerge historical and/or socio-cultural connections point of view writer’s craft and/or structural decisions personal connections

Session 5: Mid-Unit Assessment Informational Reading: MID-UNIT FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT RUBRIC   Highly Proficient Proficient Developing Annotations and multi-draft read Annotations reveal a multi-draft approach including: circling words, underlining, and marginal notes. Marginal notes show substantial thinking. Annotations reveal a multi-draft approach including: circling words, underlining, and marginal notes. Marginal notes show thinking. Annotations might reveal a single draft approach. Marginal notes are general and unspecific. Summary Well-developed paragraphs indicate most main ideas and evidence. Paragraphs indicate some main ideas and some evidence. Paragraphs indicate a lack of understanding of the main ideas and/or lack important details from the text. Extending Thinking Paragraph 3 demonstrates an extension of thinking by clearly combining two or more ways of interacting with the texts. Paragraph 3 demonstrates an extension of thinking by combining two ways of interacting with the texts. Paragraph 3 demonstrates an attempt to extend thinking with one type of interaction with the texts.