Washington Assessment of Student Learning
Washington State reading EALR 2.1 - Comprehension
Federal Way's 11th grade reading expectation 2.2
| Learning Targets | Multiple Choice | Short Answer |
| Demonstrate understanding of theme or message and supportive details. |
What do you think the author is telling readers in this story? Which of the following ideas from the poem helps get the message of the poem across? |
What do you think the author is telling readers in this poem? |
| Summarize with evidence from the reading | Choose the sentence that best tells what the selection is about? |
Write a sentence that tells what the poem is about. Then underline two things in the poem that helped you know what the poem is about. Write two or three sentences to summarize the main events in the story. Write a newspaper headline that tells about the most important events in this article. |
| Make inferences or predictions based on the reading |
Which sentence tells an idea you can get from this selection? What do you think the character will do now given the end of the story? |
Why do you think the character did? How did the character feel when a story event happened? What in the selection tells you why the character did? or What in the selection tells you how a character felt? What do you think the character will do now in the story? |
| Demonstrate understanding of major ideas and supportive details |
Which sentence gives the most important idea in the selection? |
The most important idea is in the circle. Write two more things in the boxes that tell about the most important idea. Write a question about an important idea in the article. Then write a good answer for your question. |