WRITING ROADMAP 2.0 VAUGHN RHUDY, COORDINATOR West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Accountability.

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WRITING ROADMAP 2.0 VAUGHN RHUDY, COORDINATOR West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Accountability

Provided by WVDE at no cost to counties Available to all students Grades 3 – 12 Available to all counties, schools, teachers (Aug. 15) Unlimited practice Sept. – June Writing Roadmap 2.0

Rationale Improve student writing Emphasize writing on all grade levels Writing Assessment -- grades 4, 7 and 10 Prepare for 2009 WESTEST 2 Grades 3 – 11 RLA Standard 2 : Writing Practice for national assessments 2011 NAEP ACT/SAT Writing

Product Improvements Additional prompts – shelf 66 calibrated prompts 10 practice prompts Instructor-created prompts Unlimited number Security Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer(Microsoft)

Product Improvements Customize interface Iterative writing mode Single or multiple sections Enable or disable instructional hints thesaurus, spell check, grammar tree, tutor functions 508 compliance Visually impaired Text-to-speech capability

Product Improvements Flagging of essays Requires teacher review before scoring Scoring algorithm Improvement in scoring validity 4, 5 and 6 point rubric scale Home Report

Rubric Comparison West Virginia Rubric ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT SENTENCE STRUCTURE WORD CHOICE/GRAMMAR USAGE MECHANICS Writing Roadmap Rubric ORGANIZATION IDEAS & CONTENT CONVENTIONS WORD CHOICE VOICE CONVENTIONS

Genres West Virginia NARRATIVE DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATIVE PERSUASIVE Writing Roadmap NARRATIVE DESCRIPTIVE EXPOSITORY/ INFORMATIVE PERSUASIVE

Guided Demonstration Writing Roadmap 2.0: PRODUCT TOUR: Student Trainer Demo Teacher Trainer Demo

Access to Writing Roadmap 2.0 Website address: Site code Username Password

Support/Contact Information West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Accountability Vaughn Rhudy, Coordinator

Support/Contact Information CTB/McGraw-Hill Technical Support:

KEY WEB ADDRESSES West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Accountability CTB/McGraw-Hill Writing Roadmap Writing Roadmap 2.0 Product Tour

THANKS!