Student Work 1

ELA	Performance Task	K-1 final
(Content Area)		(Grade Level-Task Number)

Standard(s):

E1a-1-Knowledge of Letters and Their Sounds:

By the end of the year, we expect kindergarten students to:

· Use their knowledge of sounds and letters to write phonetically, representing consonant sounds with single letters in the correct sequence.

E1b-3-Comprehension:

By the end of the year, we expect kindergarten students to:

• Give evidence that they are following the meaning of what they are reading.

• Respond to simple questions about the book’s content (for example, “Can you tell me what this story was about?” “What was Maria trying to do?” “Why did Antoine hide under the bed?”

The Task:

The Most Important Message

In small groups of four or five students, the teacher and /or instructional assistant will choral read an easy read book, such as “Crocodile Beat.” (any emergent reader for which there are multiple copies could be substituted) The teacher will lead the students in a discussion about the book with a focus on relating the meaning of the book to the personal experiences of the students.

The students will draw a picture and write about how the message of the book relates to their personal experiences.

Circumstances of Performance

The student work is produced under the following conditions:

X	alone		in a group
X	in class		as homework
X	with teacher feedback	X	with peer feedback
	timed	X	extended project
	no opportunity for revision	X	opportunity for revision

Criteria for Success: (The criteria are based on both the standards the task addresses and the work you want the students to produce.)

• Written statement that relates message from the book to a personal experience.
• Visual representation showing the relationship between the message from the book and personal experience.
• Participate in the choral reading of book

Related Standard(s):

E1c-1-Reading a Lot

By the end of the year, we expect kindergarten students to:

· “reread” or read along – alone or with a partner or adult – two to four familiar books each day.

· engage with a range of genres: literature (stories, songs, poems, plays); functional texts(how-to books, signs, labels, messages); and informational texts (all-about books, attribute texts).