Reading/English Language Arts

Brianna CreedEducation Program Specialistbcreed@msde.state.md.us

Common Core Instructional Shifts

• complex text• close reading• text- dependent

questions• text -based evidence• balance of text types

• writing from sources• academic vocabulary• speaking and listening• short focused research• integration of

standards

From EEA 2012

• Common Core State Standards are critical, but it is just the first step

• Common assessments aligned to the Common Core will help ensure the new standards truly reach every classroom

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What’s Next? Common Assessments

Designing the ELA/Literacy PBAs

Types of Questions and Responses– Evidence Based Selected Response – Prose Constructed Response

Three types of tasks– Narrative Writing– Literary Analysis– Research Simulation

Grade 4 Sample Items

Grade 4 Sample Evidence Based

Selected Response

Grade 4 Sample Technology Enhanced

Constructed Response

Grade 4 Sample Prose Constructed

Response

ELA/Literacy: Grade 7 Sample Item

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Students read the text that introduces the topic Items are designed to help students gather information from the texts

to lead to the final writing prompt Items require different types of responses to allow students to

demonstrate a command of evidence with complex texts

Part A: Highlight the claim that is supported by the most relevant and sufficient facts within “Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found.”

Part B: Click on two facts within the article that best provide evidence to support the claim selected in Part A.

ELA/Literacy: Grade 7 Sample Item

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Claims

Earhart and Noonan lived as castaways on Nikumaroro Island.

Earhart and Noonan’s plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean

People don’t really know where Earhart and Noonan died.

ELA/Literacy: Grade 7 Sample Item

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High SchoolEBSR Sample

Literary Analysis

Task

High SchoolEBSR Sample

Literary AnalysisTask

(Vocabulary)

High SchoolPCR Sample

Literary Analysis

Task

Outcomes

College or postsecondary career and technical training is essential to earning sustainable wages

All high school graduates should be ready to enroll in college courses or similar technical coursework without remediation

PARCC assessments will aid student learning, not detract from it

We must measure what children learn in school, but we must measure with meaningful assessments

In PARCC, students will engage with texts worth reading, problems worth solving, and tests worth taking

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