Today we administered our Unit Pre-Assessment during the Language Centers time by pulling 2-3 students at a time out into the hallway. It was interesting to watch as different students responded to the test items in different ways. Some jumped in and tried to work ahead of the questions I was reading a loud because they felt so confident about the material while others wanted the questions read to them two or three times as they tried to select the best answer(s) on the visual symbol selection and the true selected response section. I was also very glad that we included the drawing and writing response questions. The drawing question asked students to draw a Fourth of July Celebration and students' pictures were indicative not only of their knowledge of the holiday but also of their family traditions which was pretty cool. Coupled with the short writing question (what is your favorite American Tradition), I feel like these last two test items also helped us greatly as we sought to determine student attitudes towards our unit's content. As was expected, the class' two students from foreign families very obviously struggled with a lot of the content due to an almost complete lack of background knowledge. We will have to be sure to scaffold these two students during our lessons to bridge not only the prior knowledge gap but also the language gap.
The favorite American Tradition question solicited probably the most interesting answers... several of which agreed that "Halloween [was the best one] because you get candy."
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