1. What’s New in the ELA World?
Debbie Jameson
Lisa Scroggs
ELA Director
ELA Assistant Director
DESE Office of College and Career Readiness
8:50

3. What’s on the agenda? Missouri Learning Standards
Grade-Level and End-of-Course Assessment Updates
ELA Resources
Introductions, Welcome,
What’s on the agenda?

4. Some changes resulting from HB 1490 New
MLS-GLE Missouri Learning Standards
K-12 Grade-Level Expectations
K-5 Expansion of literary genres to include drama and poetry
K-12 Digital and Media Literacy
K-12 Research Expectations
K-12 Using evidence/sources in writing
GLA - New source-based writing prompts and modified scoring guides
EOC – New blended and source-based writing prompts with new scoring guides

5. Same Item Types as 2016-17/EXCEPT for Partial Credit Items
Multiple Choice (MC) 1 pt
Selected Response (SR) 1 pt or 2 pts
Ex- choose 3 out of 6 choices
Evidence-based Selected Response – (EBSR) 2 pts
Ex -Part A/B
Technology Enhanced – (TE) 1pt or 2 pts
Ex -Drag/Drop, Drop Down, Chart
Stand-alone Items –
Research
Language
Writing
Stimulus-tied Items –
Writing Prompt
Listening Items

6. 3-8 Grade-Level Assessment Development for Spring 2018
K-12 Using evidence/sources in writing
Pilot writing prompt – September 2017 –
Writing Prompt will be in grades 4 and 8
Source-based writing prompts
Sources include/connect to reading passage(s)
Use source(s) in essay
Genre specific
Revised scoring guides for writing genres
Writing prompt will be Operational in and the prompt WILL count in the students’ scores
Look in standards for where source based writing is found. Pink binders.

7. How can we help prepare OUR students for the change in the standards in source-based writing?
As a result of NEW ELA expectations,
K-5: W.1.B, W.1.C, W.2.A, W.2.B, W.2.C, W.3.A
Drafting, Revise/Edit, Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, Research
Grade 6-8: W.1.A, W.2.A, W.3.A
Research, Development of Essay, Revise/Edit

8. What Resources Are Available to Help Me?
Item Specifications
Practice Forms
Blueprints
Student writing samples for
grades 4 and 8 – SOON!
6th grade student writing samples - possible later
Writing Checklist
Scoring Guides
What Resources Are Available to Help Me?

11. What Resources Are Available to Help Me?
Item Specifications
Practice Forms
Blueprints
Student writing samples for
grades 4 and 8 – SOON!
6th grade student writing samples - possible later
Writing Checklist
Scoring Guides
What Resources Are Available to Help Me?

12. The NEW Practice Forms vs. CDT–Classroom Diagnostic Tool
Grade-Level Assessments:
The NEW Practice Forms vs. CDT–Classroom Diagnostic Tool
Grade-level specific, not grade span
Mirrors summative assessment in content and item types
Length will vary from summative as reflected by the removal of field test items
Fixed form, not computer adaptive
Scores and reports available except for writing prompt
Writing prompt practice
Now on eDirect, pdf available after Dec. 8.

13. What We’ve Learned About the Writing Prompt Pilot…
Overall Thoughts
Too much copying and close paraphrasing of source
Not paying attention to all parts of the prompt
Not developing voice
Using outside source material only (BK)
Summary writing of the passage
Analysis of character or actions of character instead of the genre
What We’ve Learned About the Writing Prompt Pilot…

14. Grade-Level Prompts (Issues Specific to Mode/Genre)
Issues with Informational/Explanatory Prompts
Pulling material in order it appears in source instead of creating original organization
Not revisiting main idea to maintain control
Issues with Argumentative Prompts
Not developing a clear claim/thesis in introduction
Failing to both support and refute counterclaims
Issues with Narrative Prompts
Summarizing instead of telling a story
Over-relying on dialogue
Grade-Level Prompts (Issues Specific to Mode/Genre)

15. How can I prepare my students for source-based writing?
WRITE, WRITE, WRITE

16. Sample Opinion Writing Prompt Using Source-Based Writing
(Informational/Explanatory Passage to Opinion Prompt)
You have read the passage about bicycle safety. Think about kids in your neighborhood. Do the kids in your neighborhood ride their bicycles according to the article’s safety rules?
Write an opinion essay for your teacher that states your opinion whether or not you think kids in your neighborhood ride bikes safely. Be sure to use details and reasons from the passage to support your opinion.

17. EOC
Let’s Look at Some Changes
Lisa 9:30

18. New in the Assessment World
Development of assessments by Missouri educators
Pilots
Item types (similar to grade level; new for EOC)
Multiple Choice (MC) 1 pt
Selected Response (SR) 1 pt or 2 pts
Ex- choose 3 out of 6 choices (EOC – “choose all that apply”)
Evidence-based Selected Response – (EBSR) 2 pts
Ex -Part A/B
Technology Enhanced – (TE) 1pt or 2 pts
Ex -Drag/Drop, Drop Down, Chart
Practice forms (mirror summative in content and item types)
Writing prompts (connected to reading passages; English I and II: source based and blended writing)—scores WILL count
New in the Assessment World

19. What we noticed with the field test results:
Students might be reading the passages, but they aren’t reading the passages. There is a difference.
A suggestion:
Approaching the text as a writer.
(writer’s craft)
RL.2.A-D; RI.2.A-D
(Structure, Point of View, Word Choice and Syntax, Development of Ideas)
1:20
Rigor!

20. Blended Writing and Source Based (narrative, argumentative, expository) Three-part Scoring Guide (organization and flow, content development/elaboration, conventions)
The New Writing Prompt

21. Writing Prompts (Common Issues)
Grade Level
Too much copying and close paraphrasing of source
Not paying attention to all parts of the prompt
Not developing voice
EOC
Not using both sources
Writing Prompts (Common Issues)

22. Grade-Level Prompts (Issues Specific to Mode/Genre)
Issues with Informational/Explanatory Prompts
Pulling material in order it appears in source instead of creating original organization
Not revisiting main idea to maintain control
Issues with Argumentative Prompts
Not developing a clear claim/thesis in introduction
Failing to both support and refute counterclaims
Issues with Narrative Prompts
Summarizing instead of telling a story
Over-relying on dialogue
Grade-Level Prompts (Issues Specific to Mode/Genre)

28. Your city council is debating whether to enact a strict “no texting while driving” law in your city and has scheduled an open meeting during which citizens may share their thoughts on the proposed law. Using a blend of two or three writing genres (choose from expository, argumentative, narrative), write the text you would read to the council at the open meeting to present your thoughts on the proposed law. Integrate and cite (either formally or informally) material from the two sources available to you with your own thoughts and/or experiences.
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29. Identifying Genres in a Piece of Writing

30. EOC Practice Tests How to find on DESE site
dese.mo.gov>Educators>Curriculum>English Language Arts>Assessment Resources (scroll down to find this tab)
EOC Practice Tests

31. How to Find ELA Resources on the DESE Website
Hyperlink to DESE homepage on screenshot

32. Work Opportunities Survey Monkey Link Open Through September 2017
How Can I Be Involved?

33. Join Our ELA Friends Edmodo Group!
Receive notices about opportunities to assist with DESE assessment development.
Find details on DESE PD opportunities, including Content Meetings, throughout the school year.
To join, either Debbie or Lisa for an invitation.
Join Our ELA Friends Edmodo Group!

34. Tell us what you think!

35. Questions? Debbie Jameson ELA Director
DESE Office of College and Career Readiness
Lisa Scroggs
ELA Assistant Director