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Assessment Journal #3 Today the students had a fill in the blank assessment during reading groups. When the students are in their reading groups, they move throughout the room to different stations. One of the stations set up today was working with compound words. The students have been practicing making and recognizing compound words for some time now. Their worksheet assignment was filling in the blank certain words that were missing, in order to complete a compound word. For example, **cup___**, and one of the words in the box would be **cake**, making **cupcake**. The students had to cut out the words in the word box, and match them appropriately on the worksheet. In order to complete this activity, the students had to understand that the word they were making was an actual compound word.

I noticed through this activity that most of the students were able to do this activity without too much difficulty. Some of the students were confused between some of the words, but overall this activity showed the teacher if they understood compound words or not. It is easy to just fill in the blank with any of the words in the word bank, but they had to read and understand both the words in the word bank as well as the word on the worksheet, in order for the word all together to make sense. If I could change this activity, I may have changed up some of the compound words, because some could have gone either way, so at the end when the students had just one left that didn’t make sense, they had to switch it out with another. Overall, I liked this activity dealing with compound words, especially because it had the word bank. I feel that if the word bank was missing, the students would have had a hard time thinking of words that made sense, or thinking of a compound word on their own.

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