GHGR+Grades+4-5

=GHGR Performance Assessments - Grade 4 - also applicable to grade 5, with modification=

Summer Professional Development Grant, July 2009
An Overview of the work: Now for the disclaimer: This work is considered a DRAFT until teachers can review it, try it out and improve upon it.

Unit 1: Great Readers See Themselves as Readers
Students create a wall display of ideas for choosing new books to read.

Unit 2: Great Readers Make Sense of Text
Students complete a "DRA-like" booklet for a nonfiction text.

Unit 3: Great Readers Use What They Know
Students self-assess ongoing work in their Reader's Notebooks (so does the teacher).

Unit 4: Great Readers Understand How Stories Work
Students create a game card using story elements to see if their peers can guess the story title.

Unit 5: Great Readers Read to Learn
Students review nonfiction text features and explain how they can help readers.

**Unit 6: Great Readers Monitor and Keep Track of Ideas and Information**
Students choose an appropriate graphic organizer to record important information from a text.

Students read a story, record important details on an organizer, and complete a short writing task.

Unit 7: Great Readers Think Critically About Books
Students write down questions and comments they would make to the author and may write a letter to the author.