Checking for Understanding

CHECKING FOR
UNDERSTANDING:
Where am I now?
1. How do we monitor individual
students’ progress?
2. What instructional strategies or
ways to allow students to show
what they’ve learned?
 • Below are statements about simile
and metaphor. If you strongly
agree with the given statement,
copy the sentence in quadrant 1. If
you agree, write it in quadrant 2.
If you disagree, write in quadrant
3. If you strongly disagree, write
in quadrant 4.

Four Corners
Four Corners
 Q1 Q2

Q3 Q4

Four Corners
 10 key
words

Free Verse Poem

Summary

Summary Poem Activity

Draw a visual interpretation of:
Climate Change

Imagery: Visual Mapping

• Fill out the graphic organizer
below about semicircles

Example/Non-Example
 A (designated
concept, principle, or
process) is like
______________
because
_________________
_________________
_.
Analogy Prompt
 A simile is a
comparison using
words such as
_______ or
_________.

Fill In Your Thoughts

Students respond individually to short, pencil–paper
formative assessments of skills and knowledge
taught in the lesson. Teachers may elect to have
students self-correct. The teacher collects assessment
results to monitor individual student progress and to
inform future instruction. Both student and teacher
can quickly assess whether the student acquired the
intended knowledge and skills. This is a formative
assessment, so a grade is not the intended purpose.

Formative Pencil– Paper

Assessment
 BIG IDEA AS A SUMMARY STATEMENT OR QUESTION OF AN IDEA
STATEMENT NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD YET

Index Card Summaries

and Questions
 Students are asked to write a
summary sentence that
answers the “who, what,
where, when, why, how”
questions about the topic.
SUMMARY
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________.

One Sentence Summary

Response Cards
Y Chart
The local government is planning to convert your town’s rice fields into
a big ZCC Mall. Once of the oldest bridges in your city will be
demolished. Most of the residents disagree with this plan, some agree
and a few remained undecided. If you were in the shoes of each of the
person enumerated below, what would you say about the plan?
Engineer Student

Business Man DENR Spokesperson

Parents
Teacher

Perspective Thinking
 What you want to know?

Own meaning of Own meaning of

what you want to what you want to
find out find out

Making Meanings
Students generate ideas quickly on a word wall in
response to a question or stimulus.

Word Wall
 Students can use this Graphic
Organizer to Predict, Reason,
Observe and Explain.
Probe Chart
Idea Spinner
FRAMING
CONCEPTS
Traffic Light
Moving to a big
city

More jobs Expensive More

Restaurants Traffic people
shopping
Malls Pollution Close to
Museums airport

Plus Minus Interesting

3-2-1
3-2-1
GOTS WANTS

Gots and Wants

3 Stars and a Wish
PROCESS:
Ask the class a question about a concept,
issue or project they have been working on.
Sample question starters include:
 Did you like…?
 How often do you…?
 Did you agree with…?

Dartboard Evaluation
 Instruct the students to consider their
response to the question of opinion
and where they will place their mark
on the dart board. They closer to the
bullseye, the more positive the
response.
continuation
 Invite students to place their mark on
the dartboard and ask them to explain
their opinion and justify their choice.
 Discuss the collected data with the class
and use it to plan for future activities.

continuation
• Students are given a “splash” of
the key words from the lesson.
• They must write a few meaningful
sentences (summarize the
learning) using these words.

Word Splash
• Write a letter to an absent student,
telling him/her the point of the
lesson, the steps in a process, the
details learned through the lesson,
etc.

Dear Student Letter

 AHA!

HUH?

Aha! And Huh?

Similar to a sentence
summary, ask students
to write a summary of
the #basicarithmetic

key learning in txt msg #toaddistocombine

form.
Example:
• LOL
• BTW
• HASHTAGS
Text Messages
• Given are letters of the
alphabet. Write a word that
starts with a letter related to the
topic being studied.

ABC Summaries
 Something that is still going around
in your head.

Something pointed that stood out in

your mind.

Something that “squared” or agreed

with your thinking.

Circle, Triangle, Square

 I still want to know
more about…

Entrance/Exit Ticket
 I learned today that…

Entrance/Exit Ticket
 What are the other characteristics
of being a hero?

Entrance/Exit Ticket
Flag It
Handprint
Journal Reflections/Entry Students
Double Entry Journal
Double Entry Journal
Double Entry Journal
Double Entry Journal
Glass, Bugs, Mud