Zooming in on the new ELAR TEKS

and the State Assessments

Presented by

Lora Darden and Caron Sharp

Our objectives today: Review the differences between the

old and new ELA/R standards

Discuss the upcoming state TAKS Test in terms of the ELA/R standards

Provide an overview of state information regarding the new STAAR test (what has been proposed to date)

Build test capacity with independent reading

Learn a new reading strategy: RAP

What are the new strands in What are the new strands in English Language Arts and English Language Arts and

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Comprehension – Figure 19Comprehension – Figure 19

Thinking about thinking while Thinking about thinking while readingreading

PurposefulPurposeful

Meaningful engagement with the Meaningful engagement with the texttext

Do lessons and activities help Do lessons and activities help students develop metacognitive students develop metacognitive reading skills?reading skills?

Both:•Reading•Writing•Listening/Speaking

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representingembedded inReading and

Writing strands

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The strands now and then…

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Fluency

Vocabulary

Theme/Genre

Poetry

Drama

Fiction

Literary/Nonfiction

KS Statements - K - 12

KS StatementsKS StatementsResearch K - 12Research K - 12

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Research Plan

Gathering Sources

Synthesizing Information

Organizing and Presenting Ideas

KS Statement KS Statement Listening and Speaking K-12Listening and Speaking K-12

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Listening

Speaking

Teamwork

KS StatementsKS StatementsWriting K - 12Writing K - 12

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Process

Literary Texts

Personal Experiences

Expository/Procedural

Persuasive

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Conventions

Handwriting, Capitalization, Punctuation

Spelling

TAKS Update

The assessment division at TEA has reviewed the questions in the test bank in light of the new curriculum. As a result, many questions have been removed from the "old test bank."

The TAKS tests to be administered in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 will contain items previously developed and field tested. The state assessment administered in 2010 and 2011 will be the TAKS test.

TAKS Update

The state has determined that questions currently eligible for inclusion on the TAKS Test will continue to be eligible in the 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 school years (until the new tests are implemented).

There will not be new types of test items on a state administered test until the stand-alone field tests in 2011 and the new STAAR assessment in 2012.

TAKS Update

Teachers are required to teach with the new ELA & Reading (ELAR) standards beginning in the 2009-2010. The test reports districts receive beginning this school year will be correlated to the new standards.

TAKS Update

The state has done side-by-sides (for all reading/writing/ ELA grades) to show the correlation between the new TEKS and each TAKS objective. The state is in the very final stages of proofing and plan to post the charts this week.

TAKS Update

If teachers are teaching the new TEKS, they are still covering everything included on TAKS (and then some). The state will not assess all the reading genres until the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) starts.

Building Test Capacity with Independent

Reading

1.How much are our students reading?

2. Why aren’t most of our students reading?

3. How do we get our students to read?

3 Questions

If most of the If most of the books IN school are books IN school are difficult,difficult,

Some Common Sense

and most of the technology OUT of school is enjoyable,what chance does reading have?

RememberFor many readers, especially struggling ones, school may be the only place where these children have the opportunity to read for fun.

The Power of ReadingThe Power of Reading by by Stephen KrashenStephen Krashen

““Free voluntary reading (FVR) is one of the Free voluntary reading (FVR) is one of the most powerful tools we have in language most powerful tools we have in language education.” - Stephen Krasheneducation.” - Stephen Krashen

Krashen’s evaluation of 41 studies that Krashen’s evaluation of 41 studies that implemented free voluntary reading (FVR) implemented free voluntary reading (FVR) revealed that 93% of the readers in the revealed that 93% of the readers in the study performed “as well or better than study performed “as well or better than students who were engaged in traditional students who were engaged in traditional language arts programs” on standardized language arts programs” on standardized reading comprehension tests.reading comprehension tests.

RAP Strategy Step 1: Read a paragraph (and underline important words or phrases in the paragraph). Step 2: Ask yourself, what is the most important who or what? Step 3: Put this (the big idea) in your own words in the margins.

RAP Strategy TipsTeach Students how to annotate in the margins effectively. Provide direct, explicit instruction. Model, model, model how to determine the key ideas in a paragraph.

Demonstration

1. Kid-friendly text 2. Adult learning text

Secondary Wiki

http://dive-into-language-arts.wikispaces.com/ Kid-friendly text