What
Text Structure
Am I
Text Structure
Am I
The Missing Pieces
Have you ever gathered around a table with your friends excited to play a board game, and when you open the box, find that pieces are missing? It’s always a bummer when you don’t have a piece to mark your place in the game, but you can get inventive.
Go to your kitchen and try using beans, gummy bears, or Skittles to replace the missing pieces! Or try using bingo chips, marker tops, or paperclips in their place. Don’t let a missing piece stop you from playing games.
Problem/Solution
I tell details about somebody else’s life; birthday, date of death, important events
I am another word that has the same meaning as the unknown word in the text.
Synonym
“It’s a piece of cake.”
Idiom
Test question has different responses where one response will be the answer
Multiple Choice
In 1994, chef Alice Waters began The Edible Schoolyard Project, an opportunity for students at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School to grow and prepare their own fresh foods. First, the students spend ninety minutes in the garden each week learning how to prepare the soil and how best to plant certain seeds. Then, they learn to tend their garden and eventually harvest the crops. Finally, they even have the opportunity to learn how to prepare the fresh fruits and vegetables and turn them into lunches and other healthy
Chronological/ or Sequence or Events
I tell a make believe story.
Fiction/ Fantasy
I am a word that means the opposite of the unknown word in the text.
Antonym
He runs as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
A type of multiple-choice question where respondents are allowed to select more than one option from a list.
Multi-select questions
The massive black and white Titanic was built in Belfast, Ireland over the course of three years. It cost 7.5 million dollars and took 3,000 men to build the 882 foot ship. Watertight compartments made it “unsinkable” in the event of a collision, and the four long cylinder tunnels were made to make the ship look more grand than most ships of the time.
Description
I tell a story to teach a moral or lesson.
Folklore or Fable
I am what an author uses to describe what the word means.
Definition
I am an action word.
Verb
A type of assessment where students are required to select specific words or phrases within a text passage to answer a question. This format is used to assess various skills such as grammar, reading comprehension, and text analysis. The process involves highlighting the correct text and allowing students to select it as their answer. This method promotes close reading and encourages students to engage with the text to identify the specific language that meets the prompt criteria. It is particularly effective for language arts, vocabulary, and reading comprehension tasks that assess precision in interpretation.
Selectable text FAST type questions
Poor Eating Has a Cost
Do you think that eating junk food doesn’t matter? Think again. When you choose junk food, your body isn’t getting the proper nutrition it needs to stay healthy, so you end up craving MORE junk food! Not only will you have trouble concentrating, but you will get tired more easily, and you won’t have energy to get the exercise your body needs. Junk food is often full of unhealthy fat, which can cause you to gain too much weight and become obese, and obesity can lead to serious diseases as you get older.
Cause and Effect
I use facts to teach about a specific topic.
Nonfiction
I am what an author uses to give ways in which a word can be used.
Example
I am found at the beginning of a word that helps you figure out it’s meaning.
Prefix
A question format where students are presented with a grid of rows and columns, where each cell represents a match between the corresponding row and column. This format is used to efficiently ask a series of multiple choice or multi-elect questions with the same possible answers. It is particularly useful for assessing knowledge in subjects where similar sub questions and answer choices are used
•TABLE MATCH
Bat or Bird
Is it a bat or a bird? No way! Bats, unlike birds, are mammals, whereas birds are part of the bird family. Not just a featherless bird, bats actually have fur covering their bodies. In contrast to a bird, who is born in an egg to hatch and kept safe by its mother, bats are born alive and they survive on their mother’s milk. Both a bat and a bird have wings, but bats also have hands and fingers. Even their sleeping habits are different, with bats sleeping upside down during the day, and birds sleeping in nests at night!
Compare and Contrast
I use god and goddesses to tell about how things in nature came to be.
Myth
I am what you do when you use clues from the text and your schema to figure out an unknown word.
Inferring
I am found at the end of a word that helps you figure out it’s meaning.
Suffix
Test question is a two-part assessment designed to evaluate students' understanding of a text.
Part A typically consists of a multiple-choice question where students analyze a passage and select the best answer from four options.
Part B requires students to use evidence from the passage to select one or more answers based on their initial response. This format encourages students to demonstrate their comprehension by linking their understanding of the text to specific evidence
An EBSR (Evidence-Based Selected Response)
PART A & PART B