Assessment/Term 1 /Week 8/ September 16 - 20, 2019 

Outcomes:

ELPS – PHONICS and PHONEMIC AWARENESS READING– Fiction/Expressive

1. Able to understand, focus and manipulate the sounds of 1.Able to comprehend grade-level fiction texts (stories and poems) by
speech. using two strategies based on reading goals.
2.Able to understand letter sound relation and the meaning. 2.Able to compare and contrast the story elements of poems and
stories.

English Assessment 1
Name: _________________ Class: 2-3 ____ Date: _________________

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A. Read the first poem below carefully!

Mrs. Iris and Her Groceries

By Dave Green

My math teacher is Mrs. Iris.

She goes to the market to buy some groceries.
She counts her eggs one by one,
When she loses count, she asks her son!

B.Choose a word from the poem above that rhymes with these words.

1. Iris -

2. one -

C. Answer these questions based on the poem!

1. How many lines does the poem have?

___________________________________________________.

2. How many stanza does the poem have?

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____________________________________________________.

3. Who is this poem about?

____________________________________________________.

4. Who is Mrs. Iris?

____________________________________________________.

5. Why does Mrs. Iris ask her son ?

____________________________________________________.

D.Find three words with digraphs from the poem.

Write the words in the table.

Words Digraphs
(ch-/ph-/wh-/th-/sh-)

Example: children ch

1.

2.

3.

E. Read the words taken from the poem above in part A.

Group the words as words with long vowels or words with short vowels.

Add one more example for each word.

math she son

eggs teacher Iris
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Words with Words with

Long Vowels Short Vowels

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

F.Look at these pictures.

Write the missing vowel digraphs. “oo” “ee”

s t r __ __ t h __ __ k w __ __ d

b __ __ k q u __ __ n t r __ __

s p ___ ___ n b __ __ t m __ __ n
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G. Read the second poem below.

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H. Compare and contrast the first and the second poem.

Write the similarities and differences in the diagram Venn below.

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Add one more sentence of your own.

It is a clerihew. The title is Mrs Iris and Her Groceries. Both are fiction texts.
They have titles. It is a triangle triplet. The title is Late For School.

Second Poem
First

1.__________________________ 1.__________ 1. ___________________________

____________________________ ________________ ____________________________

2.___________________________ 2.________________ 2.____________________________

_____________________________ _________________ _____________________________

3.____________________________ 3. _____________ 3.___________________________

___________________________ ___________ ____________________________