Interactive Speaking Assessment

(Reflecting on a Poem)
Grade level:
•   4th grade

Proficiency level/WIDA levels:

•   Overall 2, Speaking: 3

SOLs:
4.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary
nonfiction, and poetry.
a) Describe how the choice of language, setting, and characters contributes to the
development of plot.
e) Identify the narrator of a story and the speaker of a poem.
g) Identify sensory words.

WIDA standards:
English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for
academic success in the content area of language arts.

Objectives:
•   Content: SWBAT comprehend a short poem with a partner while investigating the time
of day, rhyming words, and sensory words. The student will also work with a partner to
interview about each question.
•   Language: SWBAT have an interpersonal connection with their partner through asking
and answering the given questions.

Directions:
•   Step 1: Your teacher will pair you up with a partner.
•   Step 2: Read the poem aloud with your partner.
•   Step 3: After you read the poem, read each question and answer with your partner. (Make
sure your answers are in complete sentences!)

Poem:
Every evening,
Dinner time,
A bath to wash away the grime;
Story read,
Cover raised,
Curtain parted, eyes starglazed;
Eyelids heavy,
Fighting sleep,
Soon give in to slumber deep.
Questions:

1. a.) During what time of day does the poem take place?

b.) What is your partner's favorite time of the day?

2. a.) Does the speaker in the poem want to go to sleep?

b.) Write the line or lines from the poem that support your answer.

3. a.) Does every line in the poem have a rhyme?

b.) What is your partner's favorite rhyming pair? Draw a box around your partner's favorite
rhyming words.

4. a.) What is the bedtime routine look like in the poem? (routine = actions that a person often
does in the same order)

b.) What is your partner’s bedtime routine?

5. a.) What sensory words can be used throughout this poem?

b.) What sensory word in the poem is your partner's favorite?

Scoring:
Students will be scored based on what they have written. Depending on how well the students
synthesize their response, they will be given up to 15 points. The student can earn up to three
points for each numbered question answered. One point for answering in a complete sentence,
one point for sharing what their partner had to say about the question, and one point for the
correct answer.