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Speed Drills for N JASK Success

Speed Drills for N JASK Success. Based on a Rene Schillinger Workshop. Brain Based Research. “Surfacing” - pulling schema to the forefront of our consciousness. Speed Drills. designed to help kids to have the kind of thinking skills they need to go into testing cued up and ready to go.

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Speed Drills for N JASK Success

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  1. Speed Drillsfor N JASK Success Based on a Rene Schillinger Workshop

  2. Brain Based Research • “Surfacing” - pulling schema to the forefront of our consciousness.

  3. Speed Drills • designed to help kids to have the kind of thinking skills they need to go into testing cued up and ready to go. • It is fast-paced and should be conducted in a fun way.

  4. Confidence • These drills are meant to be confidence builders. • Confidence is a predictor of success. • If you have two groups of students with similar mastery levels - the one with more confidence will score better.

  5. Approaching Testing • March - surround kids with a prompt rich environment. (evaluate, unpack, find the core, discuss, etc. prompts) • April - Speed Drills

  6. Scoring NJASK • Writing • 3 c’s (creativity, cleverness, compositional risk) • Persuasive Essay - 12pts • Explanatory Essay - 6pts • Total Writing - 18pts

  7. Scoring NJASK • Reading • It’s a reading task! Measures comprehension. • No creativity • 4 sections of mc (9 questions each) - 36pts • 4 OEQ - (4pts each) - 16pts • Total - 52pts

  8. Writing • Style over substance - A technically well written paper, that’s boring, will score poorly. • There is an expectation that errors will be present. The state views writing as a first draft. Only meaning changing errors matter. • * Writer’s craft matters • State doesn’t care what they write about. Ex. Festivus • Letter format doesn’t matter - it’s an essay. • All writing tasks can use compositional risks. • Elaboration is really important. Layered elaboration is even better. No lists. • Get my attention, keep my attention, leave me thinking. (bookend the response)

  9. Reading • No writer’s craft • You must clearly demonstrate that you: • 1 read • 2 understood • 3 interacted with text • 4 extended beyond text

  10. OEQ • Open-ended is more about thinking than anything else. • Stem language is really important - it signals to the reader that you are thinking. • Students should know stem language walking into the test. Don’t be subtle - scorer may miss it otherwise. • Ex. Author states…, According to the text…, In the text it says… • This shows… (a stem that shows you are thinking) It shows you read, are thinking & processing & can do something with the information.

  11. Connections (Extending beyond the text) • A weak connection (ex. I also have a dog…) can be salvaged as long as it’s brought back to the text. Ex. Just like in the text…, similar to the author… • Book a round trip flight • Boomerang

  12. Steps to Reading Comp • 1 - skim & scan MC • 2 - preview & unpack OEQ (numbered boxes) • 3 - read passage with pencil in hand • 4 - answer MC • 5 - answer OEQ

  13. Mr. Fenner leads the boys into the cave. • • List two ways that Mr. Fenner shows that he is a leader. • • Decide if you think Mr. Fenner is a good leader, and explain why you feel the way you do.

  14. Speed Drills - Persuasive (pg 14) Give a prompt and select a drill. Kids can share with a partner or whole class. Teacher should collect exemplars and make a class chart to hang in room. 20 seconds - write an opening - go! 60 seconds - create a compositional risk - go! 60 seconds - develop a fact that supports your opinion - go!

  15. Reflection leads to retention • 60 seconds - write an opening • 60 seconds - write another • 60 seconds - write a third • Look at all three openers - which is best? Why?

  16. Kids should be prepared to manufacture a quote, expert, organization • 60 seconds - make up an expert and what they might say (quote) - go! • 60 seconds - state (or make-up) an organization that might support your opinion - go! • 60 seconds - state a statistic - go! • 60 seconds - develop an expert witness to support your thesis - go! • Four out of five dentists agree…strategy

  17. Explanatory (pg 2) • Elaboration & compositional risk • 30 seconds - select two topics - go! • 60 seconds - pick one and do a five finger test - go! • 60 seconds - find a compositional risk you could use with prompt - go! • 30 seconds - write an opening - go! • 30 seconds - write a closing - go!

  18. Explanatory (pg 4) • 1 topic • 2 details • 3 elaborations • No lists! These score a two. • Layered elaboration is better. Tell me more, what else? What else?

  19. OER (pg 18) • 20 seconds - restate - go! • 20 seconds - restate - go! • 20 seconds - restate - go! • They should be able to do this quickly and correctly.

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