Formative Assessment 1

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Formative Assessment 1

• German
• November 2007

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World LanguagesFormative Writing Assessment 1

• Focus
• Varies slightly by language
• Same strands that will be followed all year and
  in (common) summative written assessment

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SMART Goal 2007/2008World Languages

• 80 of students receive a score of 70 or better
• Last year same goal
• Reached the goal in 2006/2007
• Stabilize the growth

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German 8

• Focus
• Vocabulary
• Spelling
• Sentence structure
• Grammar skills
• Gender

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German 8 Results

• Girls and Boys better at
• Vocabulary
• Spelling
• Scores 70s to 90s
• Girls and Boys struggle with
• Grammar
• Structure
• Scores 50s and 60s

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Vocabulary / Spelling by Gender, German
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Structure/Grammar by Gender, German
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What to do?

• Focus more on exercises that help kids visualize
  sentence structure, grammar rules
• Cut and paste!
• TPRS lesson circling the structure with Qs
• Practice using more writing strategies
• List, group, label
• Imitation writing
• Flow chart
• White boards ... Multiple sentences w/same
  structure