Analyze Task and Gap Quiz

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Call the students to the floor by the rocking chair.

Mainly TREAD (1)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Tell the students that for the whole week they are going to explore the meaning of these symbols just like they had done with the previous symbols.

Mainly TREAD (2)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Divide students into equal groups and tell them to go to the centers; rotate the groups every 20 minutes.

Mainly TREAD (3)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Walk the students through each of the four centers, explaining what they will do there.

Mainly TREAD (4)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Display a collage of American symbols on the whiteboard.

Mainly SLIDE (5)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Each student draws the symbol of the day on a worksheet that has a large empty space for illustration on the left hand side and three to four boxes for writing on the right hand side.

Mainly SLIDE (6)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

The teacher conducts a read-aloud on the symbol, working on conceptual understanding of the symbolism and vocabulary development.

Mainly TREAD (7)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

After all groups completed the centers, discuss what they found out back on the floor.

Mainly TREAD (8)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

View a narrated, teacher-created presentation that provides facts about the symbol.

Both SLIDE and TREAD (9)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Discussion, group participation, and daily journaling/writing.

Mainly TREAD (10)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

They copy the words into the appropriate spaces on the worksheet.

Mainly TREAD (11)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Each student completes his/her own Venn diagram.

Mainly TREAD (12)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Ask what the American symbols on the whiteboard are.

Mainly TREAD (13)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Students write three facts about what they learned on their worksheets from the drawing center.

Mainly TREAD (14)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Discussion, group participation, and daily journaling/writing.

Mainly TREAD (15)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Point to one of the symbols on the collage.

Mainly SLIDE (16)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

State that they will be learning about American Symbols today.

Mainly TREAD (17)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Looking at a picture of the symbol of the day and an equivalent symbol from another country…

Mainly SLIDE (18)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

Tell them that they will spend 20 minutes at each center to complete the task.

Mainly TREAD (19)

Identify the verb in bold as Mainly SLIDE, Mainly TREAD, or both SLIDE and TREAD:

The students compare the two symbols as a group.

Both SLIDE and TREAD (20)

Drawing Center: Each student draws the symbol of the day on a worksheet that has a large empty space for the illustration on the left side and three to four boxes for writing on the right hand side. The Advanced EL will most likely have no gaps.

True (21)

Walk the students through each of the four centers, explaining what they will do there. Tell them that they will spend 20 minutes at each center to complete the task. The Beginning and Advanced ELs may have trouble understanding the directions without verbal support.

False (22)

Divide students into equal groups and tell them to go to the centers; rotate the groups every 20 minutes. None of the ELs will have a gap with understanding the directions

False (23)

Evaluation: Discussion, group participation, and daily journaling/writing. The Beginning and Intermediate ELs will have gaps with using language to discuss in groups and with writing. The Advanced will likely have no gaps or small gaps.

True (24)

Call the students to the floor by the rocking chair. The Beginner may not understand the words of the teacher’s command to sit by the rocking chair, and gestures will not help because they are always different from culture to culture.

False (25)

Writing Center: Looking at a picture of the symbol of the day and an equivalent symbol from another country, the students compare the two symbols as a group and each student completes his/her own Venn diagram. The Beginning EL will have a gap using the words and phrases needed to compare or to complete a Venn diagram.

True (26)

Reading Center: The teacher conducts a read-aloud on the symbol, working on conceptual understanding of the symbolism and vocabulary development. The Intermediate will not have a gap with the understanding of the language describing the symbols.

False (27)

They copy the words into the appropriate spaces on the worksheet. The Intermediate may have a gap understanding the meaning of all of the words.

True (28)

Point to one of the symbols on the collage and state that it represents what the children will learn about today. The Beginner and Intermediate EL students will have no gaps.

False (29)

Listening Center: Each student is given a worksheet that contains a word bank on top. Together they view a narrated, teacher-center presentation that provides facts about the symbol. The Beginner may recognize pictures, but will not understand the English words and phrases in the narration. The Intermediate may recognize pictures, but will not understand all of the English words and phrases in the narration.

True (30)