Short-Answer Items:

Ask each student the following questions:

• “What do we call the name of a book?” (the title)
• “What do we call the person who wrote the book?” (the author)
• “What do we call the person who drew the pictures for the book?” (the illustrator)

Short-Answer Scoring Rubric:

Performance Assessment:

The goal of the assessment is to have students demonstrate the ability to determine whether a book is literary or informational. Adapt the assessment in one of the following ways:

• Read a literary or informational text to the whole group and show students the cover, pictures, beginning, end, and details in the book.
• Work with small groups of students, allowing them to examine a literary or informational book.
• Work with individual students, allowing them to choose a literary or informational book and examine it.

Then have students complete the following activities:

1. Tell what the book is about. (Students may answer orally, write a word or sentence, or draw a picture.)
2. Tell whether the book is fiction/literary or nonfiction/informational. (Students may answer orally or indicate their answer by writing a capital letter L for literary text or writing a capital letter I for informational text.)
3. Tell how you know what kind of book it is. (Students may answer orally. Sample answers include the following: Literary text tells a story. It has drawings. It has characters, setting, and events. Informational text gives facts. It may have photographs of real things.) If students need prompting, ask questions such as the following: Does the book tell a story or give facts? What gives a clue to the kind of book it is?

Performance Assessment Scoring Rubric: