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Nikole Brinkerhoff February 4, 2009 This week in the fifth grade class I observe, the students were given an assessment on Prepositions. The assessments had 3 parts which consisted of underlining prepositions and prepositional phrases as well as re writing sentences. For the first part they were given ten sentences and told to underline the preposition in each sentence. By doing so, the teacher will be able to assess each students ability to identify what a preposition is and where it belongs in a sentence. For the second part of the assessment the students were given ten more sentences and told to underline the prepositional phrase in each sentence. By doing so, the teacher will be able to assess the students understanding of a prepositional phrase as well as their ability to identify one in a sentence. For the third part, students were asked to re write five sentences beginning with the prepositional phrase. This allowed the teacher to assess the students’ ability to identify the preposition phrase once again as well as their ability to reconstruct a sentence. The class had worked on and practiced writing sentences with prepositions and prepositional phrases and knew that the test was coming up. Most of the students seemed to know the material pretty well; they were anxious to turn in their tests and find out how they did. I think that this particular assessment was pretty effective because in order to do well on the test the students needed to be able to identify both prepositions and prepositional phrases. They were also required to re write sentences which allows them to apply their knowledge and reconstruct a sentence. This assessment was standard rather than authentic but I still think it assessed the children on their knowledge of prepositions.
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