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PRE-ASSESSMENT FOR DIFFERENTIATION (Pre-Assessment: Discovering the…
PRE-ASSESSMENT FOR DIFFERENTIATION
Pre-Assessment:
Discovering the elements of the story
worksheet.
Give students 5 - 10 minutes to read the short passage and find the character, setting, and plot
5 Students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly
Innovative Strategies
Literature Circles: Independent reading. Students may read on-grade level book or upper level book. The book choice can be from the teacher or a choice of the group.
Write a summary of the reading.
Partner up with a student in red group and read aloud to that student.
Peer tutoring a student in the red group
Write your own story with clear characters, settings, and plots. Read it aloud to a partner in the red group. Give a quiz to the partner and check if their answers are correct
Tracking Students' Learning
Observe the students when they partner up with the red group students
Read the story they write
Interview assessment with each student
Story Elements Form of the book they read or the one they write.
Use
Book Creator
program to write a story.
12 Students who have some knowledge about the topic, but need to develop higher level of thinking skills
innovative Strategies
For students who struggle in understanding the setting: draw the setting.
Literary Circles: Students are divided into 2 smaller groups. They read the same grade-level book.
For students who are struggling in understanding the characters: role play activity
Give options in reading the book: read to self, read to a friend, or read in a group. Reading aloud is proven to be beneficial for students. (Short, 2019; Nordquist, 2019)
For students who struggle in understanding plot: create a story map activity.
Read-Pair-Share: Students read the same section of the book, Pair up with a partner to talk about the elements of the story and then share with the whole literary circle group.
Tracking Students' Learning
Check the story map or the worksheet and have interview assessment with each student.
Independent worksheet: Story Element Helpers (Students can draw or write)
Observe students role play and then do interview assessment.
Use Book Creator program
5 Students who have limited knowledge about the topic: 3 are struggling with language and are at different level of reading, 2 are having little to no comprehension of the topic
Tracking students' learning
Draw what the students understand from the reading: characters, setting, plot. This is also called one-pagers by Fletcher (2019)
Interview assessment (University of Wyoming Lab School, 2018) of their drawing or simple worksheets.
Simple worksheets to analyze one topic at a time; for example: Who Is a Character? (Retrieved from:
k12readers website
)
Innovative Strategies
Allow students to use
Rewordify
app to understand difficult words.
Literature Circles: Students in group reading a lower level book, read aloud to each other, and do guided reading with the teacher.
Guided practice worksheets in the Literature circle group.
Guided analysis of the book by the teacher/teacher assistant/reading specialist in the Literature Circle Group. Use simple worksheet for each topic taught, for example: Who is the character worksheet.
Break down the activities into one topic at a time: Character, setting, plot
Use visuals (colorful pictures) to explain about characters, settings, and plot. For example:
During Literature circles time, pair the student with an advanced reader in Green group. The advanced reader read aloud to the student.
Note: Green (advanced readers), Yellow (on level readers), Red (struggling readers)
