MODULE 7

LANGUAGE ARTS IN GRADE 4 AND 5

Assessment Task

Present a graphic organizer and trace the development of a particular Grade 4 or 5 student on the 7
standards of language arts. Give your evaluation and assessment of his or her improvement or
competency through an essay. Further, make your own rubrics based on the key and grade level
standards of Language arts for Grade 4 and 5 students.

Graphic Organizer

Standard 1: Vocabulary

Vocabulary plays an important part in

learning to read. Beginning readers must Standard 2: Fluency
use the words they hear orally to make In grade 4 and 5 students should
sense of the words they see in print. In
develop independent reading and
grade 4-5 have to apply knowledge about
there is also the expression of how
synonyms, antonyms, homophones,
multiple meaning words, and idioms to they will read the text, their voice
determine the meanings of words and and the speed of their reading are
phrases and also student should interpret also changing.
new words by analyzing the meaning of
prefixes and suffixes.

STANDARDS OF
LANGUAGE
ARTS IN GRADE
4 AND 5

Standard 4: Research and Information

Standard 3: Comprehension/Critical
Literacy Research and Information in grades 4-5
the student should conduct research and
Student in grade 4-5 should develop the
organize information in terms of access
comparing and contrasting, sequencing
to information that children are looking
events in a story, analyzing the main idea
for a good resource for their questions or
of a text, understanding the author's
what they want to know, so student
purposes, and student should read
should have found ways to answer their
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that is
questions like dictionaries, encyclopedia,
acceptable for fourth grade and grasp it.
books etc.
RUBRICS

Standard of Language Arts Below Meet Exceed

Standard Standard Standards
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Standards: Vocabulary
Students are engaging with words and language on a deeper
level. They will encounter lots of new words as they read and
study other subjects, but they are typically able to use previous
knowledge to decode unfamiliar multisyllable words. They can
also read with more accurate comprehension and better pacing,
and their writing becomes more complex as well.

Standards: Fluency
Grades 4 and 5 are able to read fast and have the ability to read
with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to
understand what they read, children must be able to read
fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently.
Standards: Comprehension/Critical Literacy
Students understand the text and read and comprehend
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that is appropriately designed for
fourth grade.
Standard: RESEARCH AND IMFORTATION
Students will understand the organization of and access
information from a variety of sources including dictionaries,
encyclopedias, atlases, and almanacs, tables of contents,
glossaries, and indexes and identify a research question and
appropriate sources to answer that question.