4 Authentic Assessments for Fine Arts 6 Grade

1. Visual Arts Standard II: The students will analyze, reflect on, and apply the structures of art. After reading a book, have students get in groups and construct a set. Have each group take a different part of the book. Have a rubric including: relevance of set to the story, well put together, illusion of depth , etc. If students have all the elements of the rubric, then they would receive one hundred percent. When students are finished building the set, they would present it to the class, telling about that part of the book and how the set fits in the story.

2. Language Art Standard V: Fluency-Students develop reading fluency by reading aloud grade level text effortlessly without hesitation. Do a readers theatre with a grade level book. Making a rubric, make sure that students can fluently read the script and read the text with an accuracy rate of 95-100%. Have a check list, if there are any students who have difficulties reading the text, you could talk to those students after. You could also have them do additional work regarding those words or sounds.

3. Language Arts Standard VI: Vocabulary-Students learn and use grade level vocabulary to increase understanding and read fluently. After students have learned new vocabulary, use those words in an art project. Have the students look in a magazine for one picture that would represent those words. Have students trace the outline of the picture with a magic marker. Then have the students write the vocabulary words in the picture they just traced. If the words were related to art…. Horizon, vertical, lines; they could trace a picture of the world and then write the words in the outlined picture. The assessment could be making sure that the students understand why those words fit with that particular picture, also making sure that the words are spelled correctly. Have students write a paragraph explaining why these words would correlate with the picture they chose.

4. Language Arts Standard IV: Spell words correctly. Have students make a power point presentation using knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to spell multi syllable words. You could have 3-4 students working together in each group.