Growing Writers in FWISD

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Growing Writers in FWISD

7th Grade TeachersWaiver Day: October 9, 2017

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3 Things

• On the back of your name tent, write 3 things you know, believe, or think about writing.

• You have 3 minutes.

,


Make the mostof our time

together.

Speak your Truth

Innovate

Respect everyone’s interest and voice

Take risks and think big

And when we need your attention…


Learning Targets…

The learner will gain a comprehensive understanding of: holistic scoring common literacy lingomentor texts in the writing process

The learner will identify: scoring characteristics of TEA’s essay rubric trends in campus essay scores




• 7.15. Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas.

• 7.16 Writing. Students write about their own experiences. • 7.17 Writing/Expository and Procedural Texts. Students write expository and procedural or

work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes.

• 7.26 Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students will use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.

• 7.28 Listening and Speaking/Teamwork. Students work productively with others in teams. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity. Students are expected to participate productively in discussions, plan agendas with clear goals and deadlines, set time limits for speakers, take notes, and vote on key issues.

7th Grade Writing TEKS



Mentor texts are pieces of literature that you—both teacher and student—can return to and reread for many different purposes. They are texts to be studied and imitated...Mentor texts help students to take risks and be different writers tomorrow than they are today. It helps them to try out new strategies and formats. A mentor text might be a poem, a newspaper article, song lyrics, comic strips, manuals, essays, almost anything.

-Lynne Dorfman: National Writing Project; Co-director of the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project & co-author of Mentor Texts, Non-Fiction Mentor Texts & Poetry Mentor Text

Common Literacy Toolkit Addition!!

http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/writing.prj/


Help! Where do I find Mentor Text?


“With a room full of authors to help us teach, teaching WRITING doesn’t have to be so lonely.”

-Katie Wood Ray, Wondrous Words


Organizational Structures of Expository Text


Read Expository Mentor Text

• Setting the Purpose for Reading - looking for expository text organizational structures

• Making Meaning of Text (during reading strategy) – annotate the text, draw visuals, list any questions, ah-has, “I’m wondering…,” etc.


Sum it Up


Dictionary Policy• Dictionaries must be available to all students taking

STAAR grades 4 and 7 writing tests, including revising and editing

• standard monolingual dictionaries in English or the language most appropriate for the student

• dictionary/thesaurus combinations • bilingual dictionaries* (word-to-word translations; no

definitions or examples) • ESL dictionaries* (definition of an English word using

simplified English)


•relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts •holistic medicine attempts to treat both the mind and the body•holistic ecology views humans and the environment as a single system

Holisticadjective ho·lis·tic \ hō-ˈli-stik \

-www.merriam-webster.com, 2017

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjective

http://www.merriam-webster.com/



What is Holistic Scoring?

Standards based tests use holistic grading to establish scoring of a paper. It can also be used to assess classroom-based work. Rather than counting errors, a paper is judged holistically utilizing preset writing standard. Common Literacy

Toolkit Addition!!


How Does TEA Score Student Writing?

• Two raters • Score of 0-8 • 2 sets of scores from 0-4 added together

for a total of 8


Rater Reliability…


Rubric

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1. READ

2. THINK

3. WRITE (the charge of WHAT studentsshould write about)

The PROMPT


Time to Rate and Calibrate!

Read for meaning

Re-read using the rubric to holistically score

Record score on sticky note



Actual TEA Calibration Scores

Writing Sample # ScoreWriting Sample A 3Writing Sample B 1Writing Sample C 2Writing Sample D 2Writing Sample E 3Writing Sample F 4


Time to Rate and Calibrate!

Read for meaning

Re-read using the rubric to holistically score

Record score on sticky note



Calibrate with a PartnerWriting Sample # Score

Writing Sample A 4

Writing Sample B 3

Writing Sample C 6

Writing Sample D 7

Writing Sample E 5

Writing Sample F 4


Teaching WRITING is like ________________

because___________.



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