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Send all inquiries to: McGraw-Hill Education Two Penn Plaza New York, New York 10121 ISBN: 978-0-07-680141-1 MHID: 0-07-680141-1 Printed in the United States of America. 4 5 6 7 8 9 RHR 21 20 19 18 17 16 D Table of Contents Teacher Introduction ................................................................................... v Unit 1 Week 1 Assessment ................................................................................. 1 Week 2 Assessment ................................................................................ 13 Week 3 Assessment ................................................................................ 25 Week 4 Assessment ................................................................................ 37 Week 5 Assessment ................................................................................ 49 Unit 2 Week 1 Assessment ................................................................................. 61 Week 2 Assessment ................................................................................ 73 Week 3 Assessment ................................................................................ 85 Week 4 Assessment ................................................................................ 97 Week 5 Assessment ................................................................................ 109 Unit 3 Week 1 Assessment ................................................................................. 121 Week 2 Assessment ................................................................................ 133 Week 3 Assessment ................................................................................ 145 Week 4 Assessment ................................................................................ 157 Week 5 Assessment ................................................................................ 169 Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education © McGraw-Hill Copyright Table of Contents– Cont’d. Unit 4 Week 1 Assessment ......................................................................... 181 Week 2 Assessment ....................................................................... 193 Week 3 Assessment ...................................................................... 205 Week 4 Assessment ....................................................................... 217 Week 5 Assessment ...................................................................... 229 Unit 5 Week 1 Assessment ........................................................................ 241 Week 2 Assessment ...................................................................... 253 Week 3 Assessment ...................................................................... 265 Week 4 Assessment ...................................................................... 277 Week 5 Assessment ...................................................................... 289 Unit 6 Week 1 Assessment ........................................................................ 301 Week 2 Assessment ....................................................................... 313 Week 3 Assessment ...................................................................... 325 Week 4 Assessment ...................................................................... 337 Education © McGraw-Hill Copyright Week 5 Assessment ...................................................................... 349 Teacher Introduction Weekly Assessments The Weekly Assessments component is an integral part of the complete assessment program aligned with Reading Wonders and state standards. Purpose of Weekly Assessments Weekly Assessments offers the opportunity to monitor student progress in a steady and structured manner while providing formative assessment data. As students complete each week of the reading program, they will be assessed on their understanding of key instructional content. The results of the assessments can be used to inform subsequent instruction. The results of Weekly Assessments provide a status of current achievement in relation to student progress through the curriculum. Focus of Weekly Assessments The focus of Weekly Assessments is on two key areas of English Language Arts—Reading and Language. Students will read two selections each week and respond to items focusing on Comprehension Skills and Vocabulary Strategies. These items assess the ability to access meaning from the text and demonstrate understanding of unknown and multiple- meaning words and phrases. Administering Weekly Assessments Each weekly assessment should be administered once the instruction for the specific week is completed. Make copies of the weekly assessment for the class. You will need one copy of the Answer Key page for each student taking the assessment. The scoring table at the bottom of the Answer Key provides a place to list student scores. The accumulated data from each weekly assessment charts student progress and underscores strengths and weaknesses. After each student has a copy of the assessment, provide a version of the following directions: Say: Write your name and the date on the question pages for this assessment. (When students are finished, continue with the directions.) You will read two selections and answer questions about them. Read each selection and the questions that follow it carefully. For the multiple-choice items, completely fill in the circle next to the correct answer. For items that require a written response, write that response clearly in the space provided. For the constructed response item, write your response on the lines provided. When you have completed the assessment, put your pencil down and turn the pages over. You may begin now. Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education © McGraw-Hill Copyright Answer procedural questions during the assessment, but do not provide any assistance on the items or selections. After the class has completed the assessment, ask students to verify that their names and the date are written on the necessary pages. Weekly Assessment • Teacher Introduction v Teacher Introduction Overview of Weekly Assessments Each weekly assessment is comprised of the following • 2 “Cold Read” selections • 10 items assessing Comprehension Skills and Vocabulary Strategies • 1 constructed response item assessing Comprehension and the ability to write across texts Reading Selections Each weekly assessment features two selections on which the assessment items are based. (In instances where poetry is used, multiple poems may be set as a selection.) The selections reflect the unit theme and/or weekly Essential Question to support the focus of the classroom instruction. Because the weekly assessments have been composed to assess student application of the skills rather than genre or genre knowledge, selections are not always the same genre as the reading selections in the Literature Anthology or RWW. Selections increase in complexity as the school year progresses to mirror the rigor of reading materials students encounter in the classroom. The Lexile goal by unit is as follows–– Unit 1: 740L; Unit 2: 780L; Unit 3: 820L; Unit 4: 860L; Unit 5: 900L; and Unit 6: 940L. Assessment Items Weekly assessments feature the following item types––selected response (SR), multiple selected response (MSR), evidence-based selected response (EBSR), constructed response (CR), technology-enhanced constructed response (TECR), and extended constructed response (ECR). (Please note that the print versions of TECR items are available in this component; the full functionality of the items is available only through the online assessment.) This variety of item types provides multiple methods of assessing student understanding, allows for deeper investigation into skills and strategies, and provides students an opportunity to become familiar with the kinds of questions they will encounter in next generation assessments, both consortia-related and state-mandated. Comprehension Items Each selection is followed by items that assess student understanding of the text through Education © McGraw-Hill Copyright the use of Comprehension Skills—both that week’s Comprehension Skill focus and a review Comprehension Skill. The review skill is taken from a week as near as possible to the current week and aligns with the instruction. Vocabulary Items Each selection is followed by items that ask students to demonstrate the ability to uncover the meanings of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases using Vocabulary Strategies. Comprehension—Extended Constructed Response At the close of each weekly assessment is a constructed response item that provides students the opportunity to craft a written response that shows their critical thinking skills and allows them to support an opinion/position by using text evidence from one or both selections. NOTE: Please consider this item as an optional assessment that allows students to show comprehension of a text in a more in-depth manner as they make connections between and within texts. vi Weekly Assessment • Teacher