Download Assessment of Labeling Parts of Speech in 6th Grade Language Arts Class and more Thesis Advanced Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! JOT2 6th Grade Labeling Parts of Speech Assessment Code: JOT2 Task 1 Title of Paper Instructional Setting and Content Area The instructional setting for this problem I will be using is my 3rd block 6th grade Language Arts class of nine students who are all classified as High Ability Learners (referenced as HAL afterwards) in Reading and Mathematics. Students are appropriately aged at 11-12 years of age in the 6th grade with no identifiable learning disabilities or factors which may inhibit intellectual growth. Students are all residents of a small rural town in Nebraska. All students are classified as “Above Grade-level” in the Wonders curriculum and therefore receive no special services or accommodations. Instructional Problem Sixth grade students are struggling with proper identification of basic parts of speech. (For this instructional problem, we are defining basic parts of speech as noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, and preposition.) Students are not able to categorize parts of speech without devices or supplemental aids to reference. Instructional Goal Statement Given 10 sentences, students will be able to demonstrate the basic parts of speech of noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, and interjections in each sentence by diagramming sentences without using their parts of speech booklets and diagramming guidelines with an 80% or higher level of accuracy. Requisite Entry-Level Knowledge and Skills Prior to this lesson, students need to come with the entry-level knowledge of reading and writing. Students also need to come with the basic level of identifying characteristics and parts of speech used in a sentence and what they mean (for example they need to know that noun is a person, place, thing or idea… etc.). Prior Knowledge and Skills Students have been identifying parts of speech in the 8 categories of noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, and interjections since 2nd grade and should have a basic understanding of the role each plays in a sentence. For students that require remedial assistance or did not do well in their preassessments, students are able to use their parts of speech booklets and their diagramming sentences handouts that serves as a guideline of how to diagram sentences. Learner Group Unique Characteristics In this class, there are nine students that are all classified as HAL students by the district and state of Nebraska guidelines. All students but one is Caucasian with the one remaining student identifying as Asian American. This group of students is the only group of students out of the 98- 6th grade students we currently have that are in each and every class together to be able to accommodate their Math being together at the higher level (all students are in Algebra 1) and not Pre-Algebra or 6th grade general mathematics. All of these students in this class have known each other their entire school career since Kindergarten and are all originally from Plattsmouth, NE. Plattsmouth, NE is a small rural community outside of Bellevue, NE where Offutt AFB (STRATCOM) is located. However, it is notable that none of the students are military, which is exceptionally rare in this area. Because all students are identified as HAL, students are independent, and generally unwilling to accept assistance preferring to come to their own conclusion which may work in a Mathematics arena where different ways to solve a problem are encouraged, it does not transfer to a Language Arts classroom where the English language laws are set and are not
