Monday, April 8, 2019

4th Grade Performance Task

4th Grade Performance Task

Over the past two weeks I had the opportunity to work with our 4th graders on the ILEARN performance task. I used Edulastic to create the performance task. The articles were pulled from Newsela and a Video was linked from YouTube to use as sources for the task. 

We completed the performance task over a two day period. We viewed the sources and answered the three questions leading up to the extended response on the first day. On the second day we tackled the extended response. 

The questions were worded just as our students will see them on ILEARN. We want them to feel prepared and confident going into the test with the wording they will see. 

Leading up to the extended response were two YES! MA'AM questions followed by a matching question (matching details to the sources they found them in). 



On the 2nd day we tackled the extended response. Our task was to write an informational article. We used Smekens Table Top Organizer to help us in this process. Obviously we can't give our students this on test day, but we can teach them to draw their "tabletops" on their scratch paper. 
 


Check out the Performance Task: 4th Grade Performance Task
Check out the Table Top PDF: Smekens Table Top Writing Organizer
I revised the original to fit 5 on a front/back copy:
Mrs. Stahl's Table Top PDF

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