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End of Unit 1 Assessment: Inferring and Synthesizing (From Two Texts) About Life in Colonial America Lesson PlanEnd of Unit 1 Assessment: Inferring and Synthesizing (From Two Texts) About Life in Colonial America Lesson Plan
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End of Unit 1 Assessment: Inferring and Synthesizing (From Two Texts) About Life in Colonial America

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Close your colonial America unit with a performance-based assessment. Class members will show their proficiency in several skills including using details to back up inferences, determining the meaning of words in context, and synthesizing information from two texts on the same topic. Wrap up with a reflection. The end to a strong unit, this assessment is designed for the Common Core and should build effectively off of instruction from the past eight lessons.

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supporting details, colonial america, informational texts, the american colonies, making inferences, main ideas, synthesizing

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colonial america, performance based assessment, inference, supporting details, english language arts
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Grade
4th
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English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Differentiated Instruction
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Year
2014
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Common Core

RI.4.1 RI.4.4 RI.4.9

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