Achievement+Series

My standard is 5.R.3.3., identifying literary devises within a text. Looking on emetric told me that my lowest standard was 5r3. So I made a pretest using the achievement series and found out that on reading standard 5.r3.1 the students answered 73%correctly, standard 5r.3.2 69% answered correctly, and standard 5r3.3 only 57% of questions were answered correctly. So, I need to teach this standard. My English book mentions similes, metaphors, and personification in one lesson. I couldn’t find any mention of alliteration. The reading series doesn’t mention them at all. . Through Achievement Series, I determined that questions were over the following items: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, and alliteration. There was a question about a baseball being a symbol of a boy’s new attitude about school. I administered the pretest September 21 and 22, 2010. I will administer the post-test after the lessons.

This is my pre-test: https://admin.achievementseries.com/test-draft/content/list.ssp?id=51a9b80cc3314d4e&ttyp=CLS&tdName=Test&rurl=/class/test-list&access=

This is my post-test:

As you can see my students increase an average of 7% from pre-test to post-test. Using 21st Century Skills has been very helpful; this is an indication that student achievement increased as a result. I am anxious to see how well this years' 5th graders do on the Dakota STEP.