Assessments
Guiding Questions, Big Ideas, & 4 Ts
Lessons
Choose Your Own Animal Adventure
100

Students will answer this type of question on both the Mid-Unit 3 and End of Unit 3 Assessments. 

What is selected response? 

100

This is the mentor literary text in Module 2, Unit 3. 

What is Can You Survive the Wilderness

100

This is how many lessons there are in Module 2, Unit 3. 

What is 15? 

100

This mammal has the most powerful bite. 

What is a hippopotamus? 

200

Students write this in part 2 of the Mid-Unit 3 Assessment.

What is a first draft introduction to their choose-your-own-adventure narrative? 

200

Finish the Guiding Question: How do animals'...

What is ...bodies and behaviors help them survive? 

200

These are 2 parts of a choose-your-own-adventure narrative that students will develop/establish in Lessons 3-5. 

What are (name 2) a character profile, a problem, a resolution, and a conclusion? 

200

This is the color of a polar bear's skin. 

What is black? 

300

The Mid-Unit 3 and End of Unit 3 Assessments center on standards in which 3 domains? 

What are reading informational text, writing, and language? 

300

In Module 2, Unit 3, students learn this big idea about writers. 

What is writers use scientific knowledge and research to inform and entertain? 

300

In lessons 9 through 13, students focus on doing this. 

What is revising a narrative text? 

300

This is the only big cat that doesn’t roar.

What is a cheetah? 

400

In part 2 of the End of Unit 3 Assessment, students produce this. 

What is the second choice conclusion for their choose-your-own-adventure narrative? 

400

The number of standards that are explicitly taught and assessed in Module 3, Unit 3. 

What is 13? 

400

These are the 2 things that students do in Lesson 12. 

What are drafting a conclusion and using transitional words/phrases? 

400

This bird’s eye is bigger than its brain.

What is an ostrich? 

500

In the second part of this assessment, students are required to plan and write. 

What is the Mid-Unit 3 Assessment? 

500

Students continue to learn about this topic in Module 2, Unit 3. 

What are animal defense mechanisms? 

500

In these 2 lessons, students engage in peer critique. 

What are lessons 6 and 9? 

500

This kind of turtle can’t retract into its shell.

What is a sea turtle? 

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