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I asked some students about the Performance Task assessment and they said they need to know how to take more effective notes when watching a video, especially if they can only watch it once or twice.

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Can students take notes in some way to use during their essay planning PRIOR to starting the essay.

Can we set up a piece of instruction that will transfer to essay planning that will be able to be used in the actual performance task done on computer.

Ex. Notes, highlight points, list of what sources for what part of argument, ...

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Structure and "stakes" of questions. If 4 of 6 sentence choices are correct, do they get credit?

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Students need to be able to express their ideas in writing.

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Critical thinking skills

Drawing conclusions

Using elaborations and explanation

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Identify key points and supporting details from the text.

Use context clues

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Multiple steps and elimination of erroneous information.

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Drawing conclusions

citing evidence

high academic vocabulary

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summarizing strategies -including practice with eliminating irrelevant info.

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Main idea

Evidence

Reading and understanding questions

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-citing evidence/elaborate

-vocabulary

-identifying unnecesary details

-rereading questions/answers

-test taking strategies in order to fine tune their skills

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Students need to be able to give examples and non examples.

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Students will need to know vocabulary and apply it to their answers.

Details, cruise on technology

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Students will need to know how to use technology!

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Students need to understand vocabulary such as:

summarize, flashback, look for details, best supports, most likely, central idea, transition sentence, click on unncessary details, etc. (Wow, that's understanding the negative!)

Students need to be willing to work very hard and to be persistent.

If students write short answers such as words or phrases, do they get credit?

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know how to type

cite information from the text

go back and re-read text

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Cite evidence from the text and elaborate.

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Students will need to be good readers and be

able to understand what the problem is asking

them to do.

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Working in pairs as a practice test helps motivation and sharing/exchanging skills.

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evidence from text

conventions!

supporting details

vocabulary was higher than I expected

transfer evidence from text into a coherent statement

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Students need to be able to analyze their results on the math test.

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The test will require students to demonstrate critical thinking skills, and how to support positions and elaborate on evidence

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Students need to be able to synthesize information on the spot in order to craft their writing around the given topic.

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They will need to identify the main idea and accurately summarize a passage.

VOCAB

academic vocabulary

TYPING SKILLS

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equivalent fractions, vocabulary order of operations,

eliminate answers, but a lot of fill in.

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Students will need higher order

thinking skills.

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How to navigate what is there

How to access tools

How to go about answering the questions

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-Most important details

-Summary statements

-Identify grammatical and punctuation errors and fix them.

-Need typing skills

-Literary elements and why they are used.

-Transition words

-Vocabulary - Context clues

-Stamina

-Using notes to create a paragraph

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Students need to know vocabulary skills.

They will need to designate order of operations

and knowledge of integers need to be apparent. Also

context clues they will need to work on ability to check

work.

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Students need to understand vocabulary in and out of context.

Students need to be able to complete two-part, text-dependent questions.

-Central Idea, Objective summaries,

Comprehend complex texts about topics that might not connect to background knowledge

Identify sentences that support a main idea.

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-literary vocab

-assessment vocab; ie, eliminate

-general vocab, for example knowledge of the word "discouraged" (nowhere in the text) in order to answer the question

-understand what a question is really asking them to do

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Students will need to know how to cite information found in the articles and excerpts, while successfully quoting the text and elaborating on their evidence.

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Vocabulary instruction needed

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Students really need to be able to think critically about the text they are given rather than just straight comprehension questions.

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- Narrowing down to best option.

- Re-reading is ok and often necessary.