Interpretive Reading Comprehension Rubric

Recently in my Latin 1 classes, I gave them a sight reading comprehension assessment and graded it using a proficiency-based rubric created by Martina Bex and the Comprehensible Classroom. Because Martina's interpretive rubrics are on TPT(they are free!), I will only post a link here to her blog page which discusses how she uses them - her blog post has the actual link to that TPT page. 

I already have a blog post from a few years ago written about my experience doing a sight reading comprehension assessment, so I will share that here. However, let me sum up/recap what I did and the whys:

I gave students a short level-appropriate passage which they had never seen before but primarily used vocabulary which we had been targeting. This way then the reading was at least already 95% comprehensible (that is key!). Also, the sentence structures/patterns needed to reflect what they had seen - now was not the time to spring on them a different writing style since that was not what I was assessing! I only used a few words which needed to be glossed and did not overdo it (if a passage has too many glossed words, then it is not really readable/comprehensible since that disrupts reading flow). Why did I create a sight passage?

• It needed to be a sight passage of primarily known vocabulary, because this way I could tell if they had acquired these target words and could understand them in a new context.
• It also needed to be a sight passage of primarily known vocabulary in order to assess their reading comprehension skills. If I were to use an already-seen/known passage, that would not give me a true understanding of their proficiency, i.e., many students could fake their proficiency skills, because they already knew the passage ahead of time and could just answer from memory without ever reading the passage on the assessment.

For the record, I had ChatGPT create a framework of a story using the prompt, "Create a short story in 4th grade Latin using the words ___________________________. Repeat these words as much as possible. Do you understand?" Once ChatGPT created the story, I heavily edited it to fit my needs.

The rubric does address various depth of knowledge (DOK) reading comprehension questions, such as basic information, finer details about the plot, and inferring about the conclusion. As a result, the sight passage needed to have a basic plot but with underlying details to address, and a conclusion where an inference could be made about characters' motivation, choices, etc. All of the questions and answers were in English (see Martina Bex's blog post why reading comprehension should be addressed in English). 

I hope you will consider creating a sight-reading assessment and using the proficiency-based interpretive rubrics by Martina Bex!