2009-10 State Scoring Guide Professional Development Assessing the Essential Skill of Reading

2009-10 State Scoring Guide

Professional DevelopmentAssessing the Essential Skill

of Reading

GoalsParticipants will know:

Requirements for demonstrating proficiency in

the Essential Skill of Reading Official State Scoring Guide

traits Resources & professional

development available

Essential Skills Requirement for Reading according to OAR: 581-22-0615 (adopted June 2008)The graduating class of 2012 will be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and comprehending a variety of text.

Reading work sample and scoring guide adopted by State Board – October 2009

State Education Law

Demonstrating Proficiency in Reading

1. OAKS Reading/Literature Assessment

Score of 236

2. Other Options

ACT or PLAN 18

WorkKeys 5Compass 81

Asset 42SAT/PSAT 440/44

Local Work Sample

• Reading Work Sample scored using Official State Scoring Guide

• Other locally developed measures

Level of RigorWork samples must

meet the level of rigor required on the OAKS assessment.

Work samples provide an optional means to demonstrate proficiency not an easier means.

Research shows …

“Students who receive intensive focused literacy instruction and tutoring will graduate from high school and attend college in significantly greater numbers than those not receiving such attention. . . .

Despite these findings, few middle or high schools have a comprehensive approach to teaching literacy across

the curriculum.”

M.L. KamilAdolescents and

Literacy:Reading for the 21st

Century

Active Reading

Real world experience

Prior knowledge

Familiarity with a

variety of text

Official Scoring Guide Traits

Demonstrate understanding

Develop an interpretation

Analyze text

Demonstrate Understanding

Main ideas, relevant details, sequence of events, relationship among ideas, facts/opinions

Literal Comprehension

“Getting the gist”

Develop an Interpretation“Reading between the lines”

• Unstated main ideas/themes

• Inferences, interpretations, conclusions, generalizations, and predictions

• Inferential Comprehension

Analyze Text(Informational and Literary)

Author’s purpose, ideasand reasoning

Writer’s Strategies Literary elements/devices Textual evidence

“Looking at the author’s craft and applying knowledge of literature”

Important Issues in ScoringSeeking evidence of

accomplishmentEvidence may be found throughout the response

6. Why didn’t I think of that?

( I gain insights.)5. They nailed it; strong proof.

1. Didn’t have a clue

4. They got it and there’s proof. (more strengths than weakness)

2. Not even close- confused

3. May have gotten it, but not enough evidence(more weaknesses than strengths)

Simplified Reading Scoring Guide

Formative Assessment

The Scoring Guide is intended to be more than a final assessment tool.

Both teachers and students can use the Scoring Guide to improve reading skills.

and the Scoring Guide

Guidelines for Selecting a Text• Look in local publications• 1000 – 2000 words in length• Lexile: 950 – 1100• High interest• Vocabulary • Identifiable elements of writer’s

craft

A Final Thought

“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”Carl Sagan

Resources

Scoring Guides

Work SamplesAnchor

Papers Classroom

resources

ODE website

Resources

4J resourcesOSLIS

Gale DatabaseProject Gutenber

gLexiles

Lexile Analyzer