Week 6 Assignment

Differentiated assessment paper two

Marcus Coleman

Ashford University

In this paper, we discuss how the teaching plan that has been developed can utilize the summative assessments. Summative assessments are used mainly at the end of a session to determine how much the students have comprehended the topics that were introduced during the class. The assessments also measure how much the students can be able to relate the topics to prior session’s topics (Core, 2011). The plan that is used to come up with summative assessment is attached below. The plan is used to teach definite and indefinite articles to grade 9 students.

The five day plan

Day 1: Pre-assessment, introduction to book the book is Terminology in English Language Teaching: Nature and Use. Students assessed on how best they can use definite and indefinite articles before lesson is introduced

Day 2: Watch parts of “English Grammar Lesson: Definite and indefinite articles”. They will discuss after the video

Day 3: Writing Prompt: this shall be based on the book and the video

Day 4-5: group work: intense group work shall build confidence and consistence

Summative Assessment:

Day one: the students will use the contents of the book to measure their comprehension. At the end of the session, the following assessments shall be conducted

· Read out the terminologies and point out to students to explain the meanings of the terminologies

· Identify the article that should be used before the terminologies.

· Develop sentences using the terminologies

· Show the relationship between the terminologies and different environments

· Students with low comprehension should be given less practicals to carry home at the end of the day. This would ensure that they are overloaded and thus they would not feel victimized. Care givers instructed to only add more personal practical tests (from the book) once the students have fully completed the given work (Holmwood Learning, 2013).

Day two: this day’s lesson shall be guided by contents in English Grammar Lesson: Definite and indefinite articles educational video. The video is more specific on usage of each article and even the pronunciations. The summative assessments at the end of the lesson include

· Construction of verbal sentences using correct vocabulary and correct definite or indefinite article (Core, 2011)

· Relating articles to the educational scenario.

· Developing of verbal sentences which appreciate one another in class using definite articles

· For students who are shy they construct a written sentence and appoint another student to read it

· Students shall also be required to repeat sentences from the video which may have tough vocabularies and use articles.

· Constructing sentences using articles in front of a noun and others in front of a verb. This would measure the different abilities of sentence construction models by the students (Holmwood Learning, 2013).

Day three: the teacher will identify an event that the student had attended and come up with a written narrative on how the day showed mutual co-existence in class. The narration shall be between 200 and 300 words in length. The summative assessments after the session shall include;

· Testing students’ ability to read out their narratives clearly and correctly inserting definite and indefinite verbs. Since only some students shall read out their narratives, the selection shall be done to represent diversities in class (Berry, 2010).

· After each student has read out a narrative, another student shall be picked to explain whether the narrative has used definite and indefinite articles efficiently. This shall measure how best the students note usage of articles within a verbal sentence. Since only some students shall analyze narratives, the selection shall be done to represent diversities in class (Holmwood Learning, 2013)

· The teacher shall identify the length of narrative that students should write once they go home after analyzing level of comprehension during summative assessments.

Day four and five: In these two days, the students shall have intense group work which shall be aimed at increasing the confidence of the students. The summative assessments at the end of each day shall include;

· Identification of group which has developed narratives with best usage of definite and indefinite articles alongside other vocabularies taught in previous sessions.

· Identifying how much peer education helps to improve comprehension levels of the low ranking students by identifying some of them to give group reports (Core, 2011)

· Identifying the extent to which group work impacts high performers by identifying some of them to give group reports (Holmwood Learning, 2013).

· Identifying the difference between how the teacher explained points and how students interpret them during peer education at group work.

A rubric that clearly details how each part of the assignment will be graded.

Day	Activity	Perfect	Average	Revisit topic
1	Summative assessment of comprehension of text book	Above 90%	Between 50% and 89%	49% and below
2	Summative assessment of comprehension of video	Above 90%	Between 50% and 89%	49% and below
3	Summative assessment of impromptu sentence construction	Above 90%	Between 50% and 89%	49% and below
4	Summative assessment of comprehension peer delivered points	Above 90%	Between 50% and 89%	49% and below
5	Summative assessment of comprehension peer delivered points	Above 90%	Between 50% and 89%	49% and below

References

Berry, R. (2010). Terminology in English language teaching: Nature and use. Atlanta, GA: Peter Lang.

Core, C. (2011). Common core curriculum maps in English language arts, grades 9-12. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Holmwood Learning. (2013). English grammar lesson: Definite and indefinite articles - YouTube. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDB9X1dILRU