When completing a whole book assessment, you are able to:
When reading a large text, we want to find 8-12 places in the text to ask questions based on the four goals:
The prompts/questions that you derive should be placed throughout the entire text, not just one section.
When assessing student response, understand that there may be various levels of comprehension such as:
Look for patterns for each of the goals to determine where the student will need more guidance.
Finding patterns between students and even a whole class can tell the teacher what areas they need to focus on to improve comprehension skills.
We have given the four comprehension goals and under each one there are 2-3 prompts found within White Bird. These prompts will be student friendly questions (with page numbers that a potential answer could be found on) that address each prompt.
Below each prompt, there are three potential student responses that include an approaching response that a student could provide, a proficient response that a student could provide, and an expecptional response that a student could provide.
Page 22: What is the problem in this story?
Page 148: What are the events that lead up to Vincent, now a Milice soldier, finding Sara’s hiding place?
Page 203: Describe the setting of the scene. Give details.
Page 54: What kind of person is Mademoiselle Petitjean?
Pg. 84: Describe the relationship between Vivienne and Sara.
Page 122: How has the relationship between Julien and Sara changed?
Pg. 113: What is something that Sara has learned so far in the story?
Pg. 141-142: What does the white bird represent?
Pg. 183-184: What are you learning about the issue of the Holocaust here?
Pg. 20: What does propaganda mean in this part of the book?
Pg. 52: Define the word implore using information from this scene.
Pg. 109: What does Vincent mean when he says inferior humans?