CCSS ELA
LITERATURE CIRCLES
DLR
ASSESSMENT AND CONFERENCES
WRITING
100

The four strands of the ELA Common Core State Standards.

What are reading, writing, language, speaking and listening?

100

This person's role is to summarize the reading selection.

Who is the reporter?

100

All sentences begin with ______.

What is a capital letter?

100

This guideline reminds teachers to select assessment tools that best match their learning objectives and student needs.

What is choose appropriate assessment tools?

100

This writing process step involves translating ideas into sentences and paragraphs.

What is the write step?

200

This reading anchor standard involves reading closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.

What is the Key Ideas and Details strand?

200

This person's role is to connect elements of the reading selection to other books, his/her own life, and/or current events in the world.

Who is the connector?

200

Three types of punctuation that end a sentence.

What are period, question mark and exclamation point?

200

When teachers assess both how students learn and what they create, they are following this authentic assessment guideline.

What is examine both processes and products?

200

This writing process step often involves a planning guide or graphic organizer.

What is the plan step?

300

This writing anchor standard involves writing arguments, informative/explanatory, and narrative tasks. 

What is the Text Types and Purposes writing anchor strand?

300

This person's role is to investigate the meaning of tricky words from the reading selection.

Who is the vocabulary detective?

300

Words like me, you, him, her, it, us, and them  are ______ pronouns.

What are object pronouns?

300

This guideline encourages students to reflect on their own progress and growth, making them active participants in the assessment process.

What is teach students to self-assess their learning?

300

______ refers to a writer's unique style, emotion, personality, and narrative point of view as reflected in their writing. 

What is writer's voice?

400

One of the four strands of the CCSS ELA that deals with the commands of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

What are the language standards?

400

This person's role is to formulate questions about the reading selection.

Who is the discussion director?

400

Every sentence has which two parts.

What are the subject and predicate?

400

This type of conference would involve narrowing down a broad topic in writing.

What is a prewriting conference?

400

Students must consider ______, ______, and ______ when writing and keep this in mind throughout all stages of the writing process?

What is task, audience, and purpose?

500

Students in K-5 apply the reading standards to these two text types.

What are literature and informational texts?

500

Three types of connections the connector should make.

What are text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world?

500

A sentence made up of two or more simple sentences joined by a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.

What is a compound sentence?

500

This type of conference would involve meeting with students to explain a procedure, strategy or skill.

What is a minilesson conference?

500

This is the most common point of view in writing. 

What is third person?

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