FCUSD Common Core implementation

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FCUSD Common Core implementation

• ELA Assessments

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ELA Assessments

• Comic

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ELA Assessments

• Objectives
• Reconnect with triad/dyad members and PDC
• Look at new district ELA READING assessments
• Look at new district ELA WRITING assessments
• FORMATIVE assessment at the classroom level

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ELA Assessments

• Welcome and Reconnect
• Which popular TV show would be the best analogy
  for your summer and why?
• Americas Got Talent
• Survivor
• The Amazing Race
• Duck Dynasty
• The Walking Dead
• Other (your choice)

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Recap of CCSS
Generous amounts of close, purposeful reading,
rereading, writing, and talking are the essence
of authentic literacy. These simple activities
are the foundation for a trained, powerful
mindand a promising future. Mike Schmoker,
Results Now (2006), p. 53

• Major shifts in ELA
• Informational Text
• Text Dependency/Text Evidence
• Text Complexity (2nd grade )
• Writing
• Read Discuss Write

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READING ASSESSMENTS

• Growth Model Assessment
• Transitionary period
• Measures End of Year Goals
• Same test, given in October, February, and May
• PILOTS
• Collaboration
• Test structure

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READING ASSESSMENTS

• Growth Model Assessment Cont.
• Review the assessment and discuss the following
  in grade level groups
• Take a few minutes to read the passages and go
  over the test with your group
• Review the answer key to see the standards
  covered
• What kinds of skills will students need to be
  able to have success with such an assessment?
• What kinds of adjustments can you make in your
  instruction to help prepare students for this
  type of assessment?
• What are the overall implications?

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WRITING ASSESSMENTS

• CCSS Text Types
• Narrative
• Informative/Explanatory
• Opinion
• Same stimulus text from HM anthology
• Rubrics
• Anchor Papers
• PILOTS
• Collaboration

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WRITING ASSESSMENTS

• Share writing prompts
• Review the prompts and discuss the following in
  grade level groups
• Take a few minutes to read all of the prompts
  with your group
• Review the writing standards covered by each
  prompt
• What kinds of skills will students need to be
  able to have success with such an assessment?
• What kinds of adjustments can you make in your
  instruction to help prepare students for this
  type of assessment?
• What are the overall implications?

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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

• What is it?
• When incorporated into classroom practice, the
  formative assessment process provides information
  needed to adjust teaching and learning while they
  are still happening.  The process serves as
  practice for the student and a check for
  understanding during the learning process.  The
  formative assessment process guides teachers in
  making decisions about future instruction.
• (http//wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/ExamplesofFormati
  veAssessment.html)

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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

• Examples
• Observation
• Discussion
• Questioning
• Think-Pair-Share-(Write)
• White Boards
• Hand signals
• Graphic Organizers or Visual Representations
• Exit Tickets

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2 stars and a wish! Thank you for your time today!
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BREAK! 1015AM 1030AMSession 2 - 1030 a.m.
1200 p.m.

• Gym All Elementary Schools, K-2, Math
• Room 5 CV, CM, WR, 3-5 ELA
• Room 8 EO, OC, FH, 3-5, ELA
• Room 9 NS, SJG, 3-5, ELA
• Room 12 GR, RR, 3-5, ELA
• Room 14 CS, BS, TJ, 3-5, ELA
• Room 16 CG, MH, NV, 3-5, ELA
• Room 17 WM, RCE, PJS, 3-5, ELA
• Prep Teachers will attend sessions with grades
  3-5.