Close Read: My Brother Martin - Assessment

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Objective

SWBAT use evidence from the text to answer questions relating to key ideas and details, craft and structure, and integration of knowledge and ideas.

Big Idea

We have completed our close read and are ready to assess the knowledge the students have gained from digging deep into the text.

Lesson Author

Rebecca Strebel

Ogden, UT

Grade Level

Fourth grade

Subjects

English / Language Arts

Martin Luther King Jr.

Reading

Comprehension: Listening and Viewing

Comprehension (Reading)

Standards

RI.4.1

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

RI.4.2

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

RI.4.3

Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

RI.4.4

Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.

RI.4.5

Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

RI.4.8

Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

Narrative

Assessment

45 minutes

I Know Where We Need More Work

We have dug deep the last few days into the text "My Brother Martin" by Christine King Farris. Now the kids get the opportunity to show what they have discovered. I will allow them to use the book to find their answers. The new end of level testing in Utah requires students to find evidence from the text to support their answers. I am hoping that practicing this with our assessments will make students more comfortable with this form of testing.

Farris, C.K. (2006). My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. New York, NY : Aladdin

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