Fluence Learning
Writing an Opinion: Student Council
A three-part assessment challenges scholars to write opinion essays covering the topic of the student council. After reading three passages, writers complete a chart, work with peers to complete a mini-research project, answer...
Fluence Learning
Writing About Literary Text: Wise or Foolish?
A three-part assessment promotes reading comprehension skills. Class members read literary texts and take notes to discuss their findings, answer comprehension questions, write summaries, and complete charts.
Fluence Learning
Writing About Informational Text: Everybody Can Bike
A three-part assessment challenges scholars to read informational texts in order to complete three tasks. Following a brief reading, class members take part in grand conversations, complete charts, and work in small groups to research...
Fluence Learning
Writing Informational Text: Community and School Gardens
Two informational texts feature community gardens of the past and present and how seeds grow. Scholars read, discuss what they have read, complete a timeline, define words, and compose a brief essay about the texts' main idea.
Fluence Learning
Writing a Narrative: Two Frogs
Three options offer young writers the opportunity to read a short story, answer questions, and write a response. A handy language arts resource focuses on reading comprehension and analyziing the story's lesson: look before you leap.
Fluence Learning
Solve Problems Using Measurement Concepts
Young mathematicians demonstrate what they know about measurement with a four-task assessment that focuses on estimation, length, and inches.
Fluence Learning
Writing an Opinion: Is Pride Good or Bad?
Does pride really goeth before the fall, or can it be essential to one's development? Second graders read two of Aesop's fables that refer to pride in their morals, and write a short essay about whether pride is good or bad, based on...
Science Matters
Formative Assessment #1
Discover how much your young scientists know about biotic and abiotic factors with a two-question formative assessment that requires them to observe, list, and describe.
Science Matters
Ecosystem Pre-Assessment
Test scholars' knowledge of ecosystems with a 20-question pre-assessment. Assessment challenges learners to answer multiple choice questions, read diagrams, and complete charts.
Illustrative Mathematics
Find 7/4 Starting from 1, Assessment Variation
Practice working with number lines with a simple, versatile instructional activity. On a number line starting at zero and continuing beyond one, third graders decide where to place the fraction seven-fourths.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparisons 2
Need a quick review for greater than or less than? Young mathematicians use <, >, or = to complete a set of seven comparison number sentences.
Illustrative Mathematics
Ten $10s Make $100
If ten $10s make $100, then how much money do twenty $10s make? Young bankers find the number of bills required to make base ten amounts in three different word problems.
Illustrative Mathematics
Saving Money 1
How many days will it take Louis to save enough money for school supplies and new pair of shoes? Focus on Common Core math standards with a two-part task that involves a word problem and counting manipulatives.
Illustrative Mathematics
Three Composing/Decomposing Problems
Practice composing and decomposing numbers in base-ten using three word problems. Each problem presents a different scenario requiring learners to explain their thinking, find the number of ones, and find out different ways to make a...
Illustrative Mathematics
Counting Stamps
Stamps come in sheets, strips, and singles. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of hundreds, tens, and ones to determine how many stamps Mike has altogether.
Illustrative Mathematics
Multiples of 3, 6, and 7
What are the common multiples of three, six, and seven? Assess young mathematicians ability to find the common multiples of three numbers in a straightforward math task.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Growth, Variation 2
A twist on the first variation of the growth task, this task poses an argument on two explanations of which snake grew more, based on the idea that two is a larger part of six rather than 10.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Growth, Variation 1
Young mathematicians compare the growth of two snake lengths in feet over one year in a straightforward word-problem task.
Illustrative Mathematics
Karl's Garden
Whose garden is bigger? Assess your class with the area task of finding out if Karl or Makenna's garden is bigger in area.
Illustrative Mathematics
Multiples of Nine
Which numbers are multiples of 9? Task class members to find the first ten multiples of 9 in a straightforward assessment activity.
Illustrative Mathematics
Looking at Numbers Every Which Way
Assess class members' ability to look at numbers every which way. A helpful learning exercise contain four tasks, including writing numbers as a sum of 100's, 10's, and 1's, and drawing a picture to represent the number.
Illustrative Mathematics
Using Place Value
Learners count by tenths, hundredths, or tens in a task that uses decimal place value strategies. The young mathematicians then use <, >, or = to make correct comparisons between expanded decimal notations.
Fluence Learning
Divide Shapes
Let's partition rectangles into equal parts. Assess learners on their ability to divide shapes into equal parts, and their ability to explain their thinking.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparisons 1
A seven question worksheet asks learners to use place value strategies to decide if each number comparison is true or false.