Pre-assessments and teaching
Background I'm teaching G1 and thus far we have learned nouns and verbs, and we just started learning about adjectives. Nouns and (action) verbs have been covered thoroughly and reviewed in every second class. Based on recent formative assessments, virtually all students understand their use and how to differentiate them. Framework G1t comes with its own limitations and challenges. Any pre-assessment that requires writing is pretty much out immediately as any writing assignments take too long compared to the benefits they offer. As I've stated previously, with any writing assignment we have some slower students that require up to two minutes just to write their name, class and date. Any pre-assessment that relies on reading is also of limited use since quite a few of my students can only read at level C (Lexile BR40L~160L) so that would lead to either many students asking for clarifications on a number of words, or going through the assessment sentence by sentence and tra