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Actively Learn ELA Summative Performance Tasks

Use Summative Assessments in Actively Learn to evaluate student learning outcomes.

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Actively Learn's ELA Summative Performance Tasks give teachers all the resources they need to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit. These Performance Tasks provide opportunities for students to use higher-level thinking skills and to synthesize information from multiple sources. They also allow teachers to assess students’ mastery of specific skills and concepts. 

ELA Summative Performance Tasks assess student comprehension and understanding of standards-aligned concepts and skills in ELA. They are included in middle school and high school Actively Learn curriculum units. 

In ELA Summative Performance Tasks, students apply their learning about ELA standards, concepts, and skills (rhetorical appeals, figurative language, etc.) to create written and oral products (expository essays, fictional and personal narratives, speeches, multimedia presentations, etc.).

Summative Performance Tasks are aligned to state writing and/or speaking and listening standards and include robust scaffolding, including detailed graphic organizers that walk students through each step in the process of creating a quality final product and teacher’s guides that provide additional guidance and ideas for extra help and extension opportunities. 

Each assessment contains the following resources:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Student Directions
  • Graphic Organizer
  • Grading Rubric

These resources are available in either PDF or Google Docs so teachers can print handouts for in-person instruction or have a ready-to-use resource for virtual instruction. These can be found by navigating to an ELA unit within Actively Learn under the Units & Text Sets menu. For more information about navigating units, refer to the Locate Actively Learn ELA Units and Text Sets article.

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