Benchmark reading level

*TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)

**WIDA (World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment)

No.

FULL NAME

Diagnostic work

Reading

Check writing

Writing speed

1 class.

2 cl.

3 cl.

4 cl.

1 cl.

2 cl.

3 cl.

4 cl.

Con.

Initial

Con.

Initial

Con.

Checking and control work on reading
for the II quarter for grades 1-4

Reading

Reading as a type of speech activity requires a special approach to assessing the quality of knowledge, skills and abilities of students in elementary school.
The proposed test papers are exemplary and are selected by the teacher based on the level of reading skill formation not only for the class as a whole, but also for each student individually, and also taking into account the requirements of the author's varied programs.
Individual testing of reading skills (reading aloud) gives the teacher a fairly complete picture of the level of formation of this skill in younger students at the end of the year.
Students are offered to read aloud an unfamiliar text that is accessible by content. The teacher, by fixing the mistakes made when reading, determining the number of unreasonable pauses, the time spent reading, answering the questions posed, assesses the level of mastering the reading skill by students.
In the 1st grade, texts for control can only be offered to reading children. It is not recommended to carry out strict control of the assessment of the reading skill of first graders - this can lead children to stress. The text for reading should be offered to children gently, taking into account the desire of the child. A gentle check mode will allow the teacher to determine the level at which the first grader is, which is especially important for both the teacher and the child. Throughout the control, the child must be aware that he was entrusted to read the text because he already "reads well." The "success situation" should accompany the child not only in normal work, but also during control.
In the 2nd, 3rd, 4th grades, the control of reading skills is already carried out as “reading aloud” and “reading to oneself”. Large texts can be read by two or three children (in a chain). Answers to questions can be built in the form of a conversation, a dialogue.

1st grade

Mom had a son, Roma.
The son grew up, grew up... and grew up.
They began to call Roma Roman.
Years passed, and Roman became a teacher.
The students call him Roman I-va-no-vi-chem.
That's it!

Questions and tasks:

1. Remember the boy's name when he was little.
2. What was Roma's name when he went to school?
3. What was Roma's name when he grew up?
4. Mark in the text the first name with one cross (+), and the middle name with two crosses (++).
5. How would you call a boy an affectionate name?
6. Type this name ______________ .

A fox lives in the forest. There, under a tree, she has a deep hole. In a warm hole - foxes. The fox does not leave them. Mother licks their muzzles, ponytails, tummies. The fur of foxes is always clean and fluffy.
The foxes have grown up. It's time to train them to hunt. The fox drags the children either a mouse, or a bird, or a hare ... The fox sits aside and watches how the cubs learn to catch prey.

(According to V. Chaplina)

Questions and tasks:

1. Mark with a cross (+) the name of the mother animal and two crosses (++) the name of her children.
2. Try to choose from the text of the sentence only about the mother fox. Read these suggestions.
3. How did the fox seem to you - kind, evil, caring, etc.?
4. How do you understand the expression: "The fox does not leave them"?
5. Tell me, what did the mother teach her cubs when they grew up? Explain the expression: "foxes learn to catch prey."
6. Find and read a sentence in which there are two words that differ only in one letter.

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Stasik and Sasha were walking through the forest.
Pine and spruce trees grew here and there.
- Look, Sasha, what cones are on the spruce!
- And the pine cones too!
The kids went out to the edge. A bush grew on the edge.
- And here is the hazel! And the nuts are ripe!
- Pick a nut! Stasik asks Sasha.
Forest nuts are very tasty!
(Draw a forest bouquet of pine, spruce and hazel branches.)

Questions and tasks:

1. What discoveries did the boys make while walking in the forest?
2. Choose and underline the words that can characterize friends: affectionate, attentive, courageous, observant, funny, proud, inquisitive, smart, mischievous.
3. Do you know the trees you read about in the text? Make up a story about your favorite tree using the sentences from the text.
4. Come up with a title for the story.

2nd class

SWANS

A swan and a winch flew to the lake. They started building a nest. The swan tore the reeds, a friend carried them in a bunch in her beak. Soon the nest was ready.
Winch laid six testicles there. Day and night she sat on her eggs.
And here is the joy! The swans were born. Now parents have one concern - to raise children, to teach them the mind.
The parents took the swans to the water. Floating: swan in front, winch on the side. They teach children how to lower their heads into the water, how to pick a leaf.
Tired kids. The mother gave them her back. The chicks settled on their backs. A proud swan swims, and the father paves the way.

Questions and tasks:

1. What is said in the first paragraph (part) of the story? Tell me how the swans built their nest.
2. What is the second part of the story about? Read the sentence that talks about the important duty of swan parents.
3. How did the swans teach their swans to reason?
4. What is the last part of the story about? How would you title the last part of the text? What picture would you draw for the fourth part of the story?

BUNNY

Svetlana had a bunny. Not alive, not real, but very beautiful. Gray, the ears are pink in the middle, and the tail is white, fluffy, very similar to a snowflake.
Svetlana loved her bunny. She fed him soup, put him to bed with her and let other children play.
Here the bunny is worn out. First his tail came off, then his ear. And the fur was tangled and frayed.
Yura saw a bunny and said:
- What an ugly hare!
Galya came up and asked:
– Why are you so old, so tailless?
Vitya advises:
- Throw him away!
And Natasha, Svetlana's older sister, took a needle and thread, sewed on a hare's tail, then an ear. I cleaned it and said:
- Whoever leaves old friends in trouble will not make new ones either.

(V. Karaseva)

Questions and tasks:

1. What was Svetlana's favorite toy?
2. What happens to toys that last a long time in the children's home?
3. What advice did the children give to Svetlana?
4. Whose advice seemed to you the most correct? What saying are Natasha's words similar to? Read them and remember!

ABOUT SMART DOG

When I was little, we had a dog. She was very smart and loved her mother very much.
One day my mother came very tired, took off her shoes and lay down on the sofa.
“Put the kettle on,” Mom said.
I said:
- Now, - and I myself began to glue the pipe to the steamer.
And the dog took a slipper in his teeth and brought it to his mother.
Mom said:
– Thank you!
Then the dog brought the second slipper.
Mom said:
- Good girl, - and stroked the dog.
She didn't tell me anything.
Just looked at me and sighed.
Now I understand that when a person is tired, he needs help. And then I didn’t understand ... But it’s a pity!

(A. Sedugin)

Questions and tasks:

1. Is this story only about a dog? Try to say in one sentence what the story is about.
2. Read the sentence: A dog is man's best friend. To which word would you like to add words to make the sentence more accurate, correct, complete?
3. Why did the mother silently look at her son and sigh? When did the son realize his misdeed?
4. What would you like to see the relationship of people in the family?
5. I think that you correctly understood this situation. Thank you for your wise, warm words about parents, the elderly, small family members.

Text to read to yourself

HA-HA-HA!

If there were no laughter, people would die of boredom. You can't live without a joke in your life. Who knows how to joke - well done!
And if they made fun of you... don't be offended, don't turn away - laugh back.
But there are times when laughter is completely out of place.
People are walking along the street, the paths are slippery. The fat man waved his hands and fell. Briefcase on one side, hat on the other. One neighbor laughs to tears, and the other - maybe you - will come up, raise his hat, brush off the snow.
After all, it happens!

(S. Ivanov)

Questions and tasks:

1. How do you understand the expression: “He knows how to joke”?
2. When is laughter appropriate and when is it not?
3. What kind of person is said to have a sense of humor?
4. What did this short story make you think about?

3rd class

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On the high bank of the old Russian river there was a city which, like the river, was called Vyatka. And across the river, in the meadows, was the settlement of Dymkovo, famous for making clay painted toys - a treasure trove of folk ...
Small toys are no easier to sculpt than large ones, even more difficult. Try to make a little horse, curl its mane, braid its tail, mark the ears, don’t forget the bridle, and then use a brush to make small patterns so that the eye is expressive and the hooves are sonorous. A magical tree of small stature! Yes, even bulk apples on it. Try to mold this man-made miracle!

(V. Kuprin)

Questions and tasks:

1. What is the settlement of Dymkovo famous for? Where is it located?
2. What features of modeling small Dymkovo toys did you learn about?
3. What words would you write in a footnote to clarify their meaning?

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4. Show your ability to use an explanatory dictionary to clarify the meanings of these words.

Magpie and walnut tree

Most generous of all,
Most generous of all
Forest tree - walnut.
On it, not knowing the haste,
Nuts are born.
Cunningly hidden in the shell are
Nuts of each kernel,
Amber, fragrant,
Slightly oily in taste.

The most generous of all,
The most generous of all
Forest tree - walnut.
It is white-sided here
Planted by a magpie.
Once in early spring,
Flying over the thicket of the forest,
Magpie opened its beak
And into the thicket of the forest, not empty
In a simple golden shell
Dropped a nutlet.
And soon the mounted rain
He passed over the thicket of the forest,
And a tree grew in it,
The crown is like a tower,
A walnut tree.
And one thing is known:
That in the spring forty,
Magpie-white-sided
It was planted.

Questions and tasks:

1. How did you feel when you read this poem? Explain why.
2. Read the passage of the poem that seemed especially vivid and emotional to you. Name beautiful combinations of words.
3. Find the line in which the author used contradictory features of the subject. Why did he do it?
4. What subjects of poetry do you particularly like? Name your favorite poems and their authors.

FOOTPRINTS

The front door was thrown open. Overtaking people, the dog ran out into the street. His red tail swayed merrily at first, then suddenly froze.
It snowed. The first snow in the dog's life.
The dog tilted his head slightly, as if he wanted to hear the snowflakes falling to the ground.
One hit him in the nose and immediately melted. The dog shook his head and snorted. Did not like. Cold.
Ryp, ryp - responded under the paws of dry crust. The dog stopped, looked up and pricked up his ears. He did not like the silence, he jogged along the path.
Roar, roar - hastily and briefly resounded in the frosty air.
Finally, he realized that the snow was creaking under his paws. The dog turned back and stopped. I started looking at my tracks. They were imprinted on the fresh crust as clearly as if blue gingerbread were scattered on the snow. The dog watched the snowflakes fill the dimples, stepped from place to place and was surprised at the new footprints.

(V. Burlak)

Questions and tasks:

1. What unusual and amazing picture was the author able to peep and tell us?
2. How did the dog get acquainted with the first snow in his life? Support with words from the text.
3. What words and expressions would you write in a footnote to clarify their meaning?

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etc.

4. Show your ability to use an explanatory dictionary to clarify the meanings of these words.

Text to read silently

SCHOOL

...I was only six years old and sent to school every morning with my eight-year-old brother.
In good weather, it was not difficult for me to walk to school and then walk back home. But then the cold came, the water in the ditches turned to ice, and soon it began to snow. At first we had a lot of fun wandering through the fresh snow. Then the weather got colder and colder. One day at the end of November, on the way home, I was so cold that I could not move on. I lay down on the snow.
I have a vague memory of this. I only remember that at first I was very cold, and then I really wanted to sleep. Brother Arthur realized that my life was in danger. He started yelling at me, trying with all his might to make me walk home.
I was no longer sent to school this winter. Still small...

(E. Seton-Thompson)

Questions and tasks:

1. What story did the author tell us?
2. Retell the text briefly.
3. What did the baby experience when he was very cold and could not go further?
4. Why did the older brother behave like this with a freezing baby?
5. What natural phenomena can pose a danger to people? How can you protect yourself from them?

4th grade

ENCOUNTER WITH WOLVES

The first time I saw wolves was when I was just over seven years old. It was winter, for some reason I went out on the porch in the evening and then I saw two big dogs near the box. The dogs perceptibly sat on the snow, immediately noticed me, slightly leaned back. Another one, exactly the same big dark dog, jumped out of the box and stood next to them. I don’t know why, but I wanted to drive the dogs away, I took a log and threw it at them with all my strength ... And the big dogs immediately disappeared, as night shadows disappear ...
I told about my meeting at home. The adults listened to me and went out into the street. They found traces of my "dogs" in the snow, and unanimously declared that these were not dogs, but wolves.
Well, wolves are wolves, I agreed. But the fact that wolves roam at night next to our porch did not scare me or the adults. The doors to the barn, where we had a goat and a pig, closed well. We didn't have a dog, and the wolves had nothing to steal from us.

(A. Onegov)

Questions and tasks:

1. Tell about the meeting between the boy and the wolves. Was this meeting dangerous and why?
2. How did the adults guess that they were wolves?
3. Think: why did the author write about wolves - wolves roam, and not in some other way? Explain the meaning of this expression.
4. What word(s) would you put in a footnote to clarify their content?

SNOWGURKIN'S HOUSE

“Why are you in the forest, Frost,
Wandering around, shaking?
Why are you between the birches? -
"And then I'm building a house."
“Santa Claus, answer:
Who is your home for? Tell!" –
“For the Frosty Daughter,
For the Snow Maiden's little white girl
I'm building a house out of ice.
There is thin mica in the windows,
A painted porch,
Not simple: icy.
I will cover the roof of the house.
I will cover the roof with snow straw.
I'll amuse the Snow Maiden -
I'll hang it all over with icicles,
I'll give her pearls -
Multi-colored snows,
Ice necklace.
I'll have a housewarming soon!
Coming tomorrow night
To the old man Snegurka-daughter.

(S. Severny)

Questions and tasks:

1. Tell us what and how Frost built the house for the Snow Maiden.
2. Choose especially successful expressions and comparisons that the author used in the poem.
3. How does the intonation change in the words of the author and the words of Moroz?
4. How many people do you need to read this poem by roles?

BAIKAL

Lake Baikal. There are many songs and stories about him. After all, this lake is the deepest on earth, the most ancient. For twenty-two million years, Lake-Sea Baikal has been living in the world. Stones at the bottom are clearly visible through the water. That's how transparent it is. The stones are close, I put my hand into the water, pulled it out - I got burned. Such cold, it turns out, water.
It is worth hearing the word "Baikal", and an old legend will come to mind. As if the only daughter of the old man of Baikal - Angara ran away from her father to the handsome hero Yenisei. The father threw a stone after the fugitive. The stone remained in the river. It is called the Shaman stone.
The legend says that the old man of Baikal has three hundred and thirty six sons who bring him water. And the only daughter, Angara, distributes wealth. The Angara flies out in a wide stream, cuts mountains and forests, rushing to the Yenisei.

(M. Sergeev)

Questions and tasks:

1. Tell us what you especially remember about the story? What surprised and amazed you?
2. Divide the text into semantic parts.
3. Make a plan for retelling the text:

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4. Highlight the words in the text that need clarification, interpretation. What dictionary will help you do this?

Text to read to yourself

GULIVER'S TRAVEL

For many weeks and months the Antelope sailed across the Southern Ocean. Tailwinds blew. The trip was successful.
But one day, when crossing to East India, the ship was overtaken by a terrible storm. Wind and waves drove him to no one knows where.
And the hold was already running out of food and fresh water.
Twelve sailors died of fatigue and hunger. The rest barely moved their feet. The ship tossed from side to side like a nutshell.
One dark, stormy night, the wind carried the Antelope right onto a sharp rock. The sailors noticed it too late. The ship hit a cliff and broke into pieces.
Only Gulliver and five sailors managed to escape in the boat.
For a long time they rushed along the sea and, finally, they were completely exhausted. And the waves got bigger and bigger, and then the highest wave tossed and capsized the boat.
Water covered Gulliver with his head.

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