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Assessing Students Understanding of Literature

The document discusses various topics related to assessing students' understanding of literature including: 1) Providing reader's guides and asking effective questions to guide students' reading and assess comprehension. 2) Having students take notes, analyze themes, and move beyond just understanding plot and characters. 3) Key qualities of good reading comprehension like decoding, fluency, vocabulary, reasoning skills, and working memory.

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Assessing Students Understanding of Literature

The document discusses various topics related to assessing students' understanding of literature including: 1) Providing reader's guides and asking effective questions to guide students' reading and assess comprehension. 2) Having students take notes, analyze themes, and move beyond just understanding plot and characters. 3) Key qualities of good reading comprehension like decoding, fluency, vocabulary, reasoning skills, and working memory.

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Group 4

Assessing Students
Understanding of
Literature
Assessing your students
Assessment is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning
and development of students. It is the process of defining, selecting,
designing, collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and using information to
increase students' learning and development.
Understanding Literature
Literature is very broad term. It covers wide range of ideas. Single definition
of Literature might not be possible. Everyone defines it according to his/her
own views.
Purposeful reading
The majority of children love to have stories read to them, and some enjoy
the act of reading independently;
Provide reader’s guide
• Guides may be phrased as statements or as questions.
• Students read the assigned text and complete the tasks on the Reading
Guides during the reading process.
Ask Questions
Effective questioning is a key tool in Assessment for Learning strategies and
should be planned such that a range of responses are anticipated. Good
questions lead the learner on a journey in which there is a balance between
content (who, what, when) and process (how, why).
Make use of the tools
Students can take notes about what they observed.
Beyond the Line-Thematic
After our students are able to access plot and characterization, it's time to
raise the bar again.
Qualities of a good reading and text
comprehension
• Decoding
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Sentence construction cohesion
• Reasoning and background knowledge
• Working memory and attention
Decoding
Decoding is a vital step in the reading process. Students use this skill to
sound out words they’ve heard before but haven’t seen written out. The
ability to do that is the foundation for other reading skills.
Fluency
To read fluently, kids need to instantly recognize words, including words
they can find out. Fluency speeds up the rate at which they can read and
understand text. It’s also important when kids encounter irregular words,
like of and the, which can’t be sounded out.
Vocabulary
To understand what you’re reading, you need to understand most of the
words in the text. Having a strong vocabulary is a key component of reading
comprehension. Students can learn vocabulary through instruction. But they
typically learn the meaning of words through everyday experience and also
by reading.
Sentence Construction Cohesion
Understanding how sentences are built might seem like a writing skill. So
might connecting ideas within and between sentences, which is
called cohesion. But these skills are important for reading comprehension as
well.
Reasoning and Background knowledge
Most readers relate what they’ve read to what they know. So it’s important
for students to have background or prior knowledge about the world when
they read. They also need to be able to “read between the lines” and pull out
meaning even when it’s not literally spelled out.
Working Memory Attention
These two skills are both part of a group of abilities known as executive
function. They’re different but closely related. When students read, attention
allows them to take in information from the text.

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