Website: Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry Partner in Education PARCC FRAMEWORKS & ASSESSMENT BLUEPRINT TOOLS FOR TEACHING Follow me on

Content and Language Targets © 2013 Partner in Education  Content – Teachers will apply Common Core Literacy standards to their curriculum and instruction after a review of CCSS assessment and instructional expectations  Language – Teachers will share their experiences and expectations of the application of the CCSS.

PARCC Prototypes Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 3  Three Types of Student Response  Evidence-Based Selected-Response Designed to measure reading  Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response Designed to measure reading  Prose Constructed-Response Designed to measure reading and writing

Evidenced-Based Selected Response (EBSR) Specifications Two or three parts serve as a single item Each part w/selected response minimum of 4 choices Part A: respond to question by selecting correct answer among minimum of four choices (Standards 2-9) Part B: locate or connect text details/evidence to explain or justify answer from Part A (Standard 1) Questions may/should be coherently sequenced Actual use of standards language prioritized Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 4

Grade 6 Evidence- Based Selected- Response from Narrative Writing Task Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 5

Scoring of EBSR and TECR Full credit = Two points Each item: no longer than 2 minutes for completion EBSR and items combining EBSR and TECR For items w/ one correct response in Part A and Part B Four choices required No partial credit (must have Part A and Part B correct) For items with one or more two correct responses Six choices are required Partial credit: Part A correct & at least one correct response Part B For items with three correct responses (grades 6- 11) Seven choices are required Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 6

Grade 6: Technology- Enhanced Selected- Response Item 7 Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education

Grade-Band Lexile Levels Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 8

ELA Task Generation Model: Literary Analysis Always provides two texts One extended literary text One additional literary text Always six EBSR and/or TECR items One vocab item for each text Two Reading Literature items for each text always measuring RL2 and RL3, usually measuring RL5, and oftentimes measuring RL7 Prose Constructed Response (PCR) always measures RL1 PCR always measures second Reading Literature Standard 9 Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education

ELA Task Generation Model: Research Always provides multiple texts Grades 3 and 4: anchor text and one additional Grades 5-11: anchor text and two additional Third text may be multi-media with transcripts Always has two sessions Session 1 writes a summary or analytic regarding anchor text Session 2 writes an analytic synthesis of all texts Always answer one vocabulary item for each text Always answer 2 EBSR and/or TECR items for each text 10 Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education

Students read one literary text (from any discipline) Respond to five EBSR and/or TECR items Respond to one vocabulary item Write a narrative story Continuation of the text From a different P-O-V Adding dialogue & description: make it come alive Understanding the Narrative Writing Task 11 Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education

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Routine Writing Common Core State Standard #9 Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 14

BluePrint Exercise ELA Teachers List seminal text for the first quarter that will match instructional expectations (reading and writing). Non – ELA Teachers Review Research Simulation Standards, Compare with Instructional Expectations, Consider texts to support instruction and assessments Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 15

Next Steps – Curriculum Alignment Identification of Seminal Texts for Quarter #1,#2,#3, #4 Identification of Texts for assessment and assessment prompts Development of writing assessments that develop from text and meet instructional and assessment expectations Slide Copyright 2013 Partner in Education 16