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2009-10 State Scoring Guide Professional Development Assessing the Essential Skill of Reading

2009-10 State Scoring Guide Professional Development Assessing the Essential Skill of Reading. Goals Participants will know:. Requirements for demonstrating proficiency in the Essential Skill of Reading Official State Scoring Guide traits Resources & professional development available.

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2009-10 State Scoring Guide Professional Development Assessing the Essential Skill of Reading

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  1. 2009-10 State Scoring Guide Professional DevelopmentAssessing the Essential Skill of Reading

  2. GoalsParticipants will know: Requirements for demonstrating proficiency in the Essential Skill of Reading Official State Scoring Guide traits Resources & professional development available

  3. State Education Law • Essential Skills Requirement for Reading according to OAR: 581-22-0615 (adopted June 2008) The graduating class of 2012 will be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and comprehending a variety of text. • Reading work sample and scoring guide adopted by State Board – October 2009

  4. Demonstrating Proficiency in Reading 1. OAKS Reading/Literature Assessment Score of 236 2. Other Options

  5. Local Work Sample • Reading Work Sample scored using Official State Scoring Guide • Other locally developed measures

  6. Level of Rigor • Work samples must meet the level of rigor required on the OAKS assessment. • Work samples provide an optional means to demonstrate proficiency notaneasier means.

  7. Research shows … “Students who receive intensive focused literacy instruction and tutoring will graduate from high school and attend college in significantly greater numbers than those not receiving such attention. . . .

  8. Despite these findings, few middle or high schools have a comprehensive approach to teaching literacy across the curriculum.” M.L. Kamil Adolescents and Literacy: Reading for the 21st Century

  9. Active Reading Real world experience Familiarity with a variety of text Prior knowledge

  10. Official Scoring Guide Traits • Demonstrate understanding • Develop an interpretation • Analyze text

  11. Demonstrate Understanding “Getting the gist” • Main ideas, relevant details, sequence of events, relationship among ideas, facts/opinions • Literal Comprehension

  12. Develop an Interpretation “Reading between the lines” • Unstated main ideas/themes • Inferences, interpretations, conclusions, generalizations, and predictions • Inferential Comprehension

  13. Analyze Text(Informational and Literary) • Author’s purpose, ideas and reasoning • Writer’s Strategies • Literary elements/devices • Textual evidence “Looking at the author’s craft and applying knowledge of literature”

  14. Important Issues in Scoring • Seeking evidence of accomplishment • Evidence may be found throughout the response

  15. Simplified Reading Scoring Guide 6. Why didn’t I think of that? ( I gain insights.) 5. They nailed it; strong proof. 4.They got it and there’s proof. (more strengths than weakness) 3.May have gotten it, but not enough evidence (more weaknesses than strengths) 2. Not even close - confused 1. Didn’t have a clue

  16. Formative Assessment and the Scoring Guide • The Scoring Guide is intended to be more than a final assessment tool. • Both teachers and students can use the Scoring Guide to improve reading skills.

  17. Guidelines for Selecting a Text • Look in local publications • 1000 – 2000 words in length • Lexile: 950 – 1100 • High interest • Vocabulary • Identifiable elements of writer’s craft

  18. A Final Thought “Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.” Carl Sagan

  19. Resources ODE website • Scoring Guides • Work Samples • Anchor Papers • Classroom resources

  20. Resources • 4J resources • OSLIS • Gale Database • Project Gutenberg • Lexiles • Lexile Analyzer

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