Stage G - English Language Arts
Assessments
English Language Arts Classroom Assessments Aligned
to the Illinois Learning Standards
The assessments are coded according to learning standard
and stage. Example: 1A.G is aligned to standard 1A,
stage G (seventh grade). Sample student work, when available,
follows the assessment.
1A.G - Vocabulary Collage
The students will activate prior knowledge and make
predictions of vocabulary before they read a selection.
1B.G - Game Board
After reading a novel, the student will create a game
board, which includes literal and inferential information
from the novel.
1C.G - Interpreting Information from
Magazines
Using a magazine article, each student will read an
article, interpret the elements of a good article and
create informational geometric design sheets.
2A.G - Bookmark
After reading literary works as a class each student
will develop bookmarks that include literary elements,
terms, and genre for each selection.
2B.G - Drama Change
After having read a class novel students will rewrite
the ending of the story into drama form so the plot
is different.
3A.G - Jumping Frog
Write a multi-paragraph paper on the following topic
on two tricks that are played on characters in the story,
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”
3B.G - Christmas Holiday
Using the writing process, each student will write a
multi-paragraph narrative on a prompt.
3C.G - Detention
Each student will write a multi-paragraph persuasive
essay on the prompt, “Detentions.”
4A.G - Where Am I?
The student will listen to a set of directions read
by the teacher and will mark the path on a map to determine
his/her destination.
4B.G - Controversial Character
Students will analyze a controversial character from
a selection read this year, and will present as a group
their analysis of that controversial character.
5A.G - Locating, Organizing and Using
Information
Each student will generate ideas and formulate questions
using a graphic organizer for writing a multi-paragraph
report.
5B.G - Analyzing and Recording Information
Each student will research and analyze information from
primary and secondary print and non-print sources, discriminate
between relevant and irrelevant information, organize
information, record sources and develop a bibliography
and sources cited page.
5C.G - Research Project
Each student will have investigated a topic suitable
for research and organized information from the research,
to write a multi-paragraph report or to present the
report orally, using a visual enhancement created.
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