Informal Listening Assessment

Objectives:
3.3 The student will study the exploration of the Americas by
b) identifying the reasons for exploring, the information gained, the results of the travels, and the
impact of the travels on American Indians.
3.5 d) locating the regions in the Americas explored by Christopher Columbus (San Salvador in the
Bahamas), Juan Ponce de Len (near St. Augustine, Florida), Jacques Cartier (near Quebec, Canada), and
Christopher Newport (Jamestown, Virginia).
The student will also use macro-skills such as using ideas to describe, predict outcomes, infer links and
connections between events, deduce causes and effects, and detect such relations such as main idea,
supporting idea, new information, given information, generalization, and exemplification.
Scoring:
The student will be informally scored by a 2 point scale for each question:
2The student is able to listen and answers the question correctly.
1The student does not understand the question and answers incorrectly.
0The student does not respond to the question at all.
Directions:
The ESL specialist will be reading definitions of terms the students have learned about in class to Ivan.
Ivan will be given three vocabulary terms one of them being the correct term to match the definition
being read to him. For each question the specialist will have three terms written on one single card that
corresponds to the definition and has one correct term. The student will need to read the correct term
to the ESL specialist.
List of Definitions
A person who travels seeking new discoveries
lands

List of Vocabulary terms

Explorer
Indian
European

A person from one of the countries of Europe.

Juan Ponce de Leon

European
Christopher Columbus

Who was the explorer from Spain who landed in

San Salvador, discovered a sea route to America
and discovered the New World?

Christopher Columbus
Juan Ponce de Leon
Jacques Cartier

What did Christopher Columbus want to find when

he left Spain?

Christopher Columbus wanted to find a sea route

to Asia.
Christopher Columbus was told to leave Spain.
Christopher Columbus wanted to find food.

What explorer was sponsored by Spain who

landed in Florida near St. Augustine and gave claim
of Florida to Spain?

Christopher Newport
Juan Ponce de Leon
Christopher Columbus

What was Juan Ponce de Leons motivation for

exploring?

He wanted to find a sea route to Asia.

He wanted to discover riches and conquer lands.
He wanted to meet new people.

Who was Christopher Newport?

He was an explorer from Spain who wanted to find

riches.
He was an explorer from France who wanted to
find America.
He was an explorer from England who landed in
Jamestown, Virginia.

Which explorer made four voyages and brought

more people to Jamestown?

Christopher Newport
Christopher Columbus
Jacques Cartier

Where was Jacques Cartier from, and what did he

explore?

Jacques Cartier was from England and he explored

Florida.
Jacques Cartier was from France and explored the
St. Lawrence River Valley in Quebec, Canada.
Jacques Cartier was from Spain and explored the
Americas.
He wanted to colonize the New World.
He was in search of riches.
He wanted to give claim to Spain.

What was Jacques Cartiers motivation for

exploring?