Listening Assessment

Grade Level: 1st Grade

WIDA Proficiency Level: 3 (Developing)

WIDA Standard (2012): English language learners will process:

Discourse with a series of extended sentences
Related ideas
Compound and some complex (e.g. noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase)
grammatical constructions
Sentence patterns across content areas
Specific content language, including expressions
Words and expressions with common collocations and idioms across content areas
Topic: Plant parts and needs.
Virginia SOL: 1.4 The student will investigate and understand that plants have basic life needs
and functional parts and can be classified according to certain characteristics. Key concepts
include a) plants need nutrients, air, water, light, and a place to grow; b) basic parts of plants

Propositions:
1. A plant is a living thing.
2. A plant has five basic needs in order to live.
3. A plant needs nutrients, air, water, light, and a place to grow.
4. A plant grows in soil.
5. Plants make their own food.
6. A plant has seeds, roots, stems, leaves, buds, and fruit.
7. The sun gives plants light and energy to make food.
8. The roots of a plant are in the ground.
9. The first stage of a plant is a seed.
10. The stem holds the plant up.
11. The petals protect the inner part of the flower.
12. The leaves make food for the plant.

Responsive Listening
Purpose: To assess student's ability to listen to a short stretch of language in order to make an
equally short response about the characteristics of the plant.
Directions: You will hear six questions two times. Carefully listen to each question twice.
Choose the best answer for each question. (2 points each)
1. Students hear: Where does a plant get energy from?
Students read:
A. animals

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3.

4.

5.

6.

B. the stem
C. the sun
D. humans
Students hear: What part of the plant is in the ground?
Students read:
A. stem
B. roots
C. leaves
D. petals
Students hear: What is the first stage of a plant?
Students read:
A. a tree
B. a bud
C. roots
D. a seed
Students hear: What part of the plant holds it up?
Students read:
A. the petals
B. the roots
C. the stem
D. the leaves
Students hear: What helps protect the inner part of the flower?
Students read:
A. the petals
B. the roots
C. the stem
D. the leaves
Students hear: What part of the plant makes food?
Students read:
A. the petals
B. the roots
C. the stem
D. the leaves

Selective Listening
Purpose: Assesses a students ability to listen to a passage while simultaneously reading the
written text and writing in selected omitted key words for plants basic needs.
Directions: Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks. You will hear the passage three times.
(1 point each; Bonus: point for every correctly spelled word) (Hint: Listen to the passage
carefully first. The second time, fill in the blanks as you hear them. During the third, and final,
time you hear the passage check your work.)
Students see and hear: A plant needs five things in order to survive. All plants make their own
food. Its roots carry water and nutrients up the plant. The nutrients come from the soil, where
the plant lives. Sunlight is also needed to help the plant make its food. Like all other living
things, plants need air.
Extensive Listening

Purpose: Assess a student's ability to summarize main points after hearing extended
speech about the life cycle of a plant.
Directions: Carefully listen and watch the video (From a Seed to a Flower). After the video,
retell the story by cutting and gluing the following pictures to a separate sheet of paper in order
of how they happened. Underneath each picture, write what stage the plant is in or what the
plant needs to survive.
This activity should be implemented as an informal, formative assessment task that should be
taught in the classroom within the subject unit. Below, pictures and labels are in correct order.
When this task is given to the children, the pictures will be in random order and they will be
expected to cut and paste them into the correct order.

Seed

Sun

Water (or Rain)

Roots
Sprout
Leaves

Bud

Flower