For this assessment, students plan and write an informative piece about the puffer fish. They will use the texts read for the Mid-Unit 2 Assessment as well as the notes taken during that assessment. Since students are already familiar with the texts, a large part of their focus can rest on planning and writing. With this added emphasis on writing time, it’s possible that your assessment of students’ progress toward mastering the Writing Standards addressed by this assessment will be more accurate.
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These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.