Example of Subordinate Skills and Related Performance Objectives
and Assessment Items/Tasks

Terminal Objective: In writing short stories, students will use a variety of sentence types based on sentence purpose and the idea or mood being communicated.
Subordinate Skills
(from instructional analysis)
Performance Objectives
(based on Ch. 6)
Assessment Items/Tasks
(based on Ch. 7)
1.1 Classify subjects and predicates in complete sentences. 1.1 Given the several complete, simple declarative sentences, locate all the subjects and predicates. Directions: Locate the subjects and predicates in the following sentences. Draw one line under the subject and two lines under the predicate in each sentence.
    After the space ship landed, G24 slowly opened the hatch.
    The soccer team was victorious this season.
    Susan got an after-school job weeding flower beds.
    Feeling foolish, Juan hurried to find George. 
1.5 Classify complete and incomplete sentences. 1.5.1 Given several complete and incomplete declarative sentences, locate all those that are complete. Directions. Locate complete and incomplete sentences. Place an X in the space before each complete sentence.
    _____ 1. John closely followed directions.
    _____ 2. The team that was most excited
    _____ 3. The dog sled jolted bumped over the frozen land.
    _____ 4. The plants in the garden.
  1.5.2 Given several complete and incomplete declarative sentences, locate all those missing subjects and all those missing predicates. Directions: Locate missing subjects and predicates. Place a P before all of the items that are missing a predicate. Place an S before all items that are missing a subject.
    _____ 1. Found the lost friends happy to see her.
    _____ 2. Played on the beach all day.
    _____ 3. The department that was the most profitable.
1.6 State the purpose of a declarative sentence. 1.6 Given the terms declarative sentence and purpose, state the purpose of a declarative sentence. The purpose should include to convey/tell information. 1. What purpose does a declarative sentence serve?
    2. The purpose of a declarative sentence is to _____________?