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Virginia English Language Arts Supervisors April 22, 2013

Virginia English Language Arts Supervisors April 22, 2013. HB 2144.

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Virginia English Language Arts Supervisors April 22, 2013

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  1. Virginia English Language Arts Supervisors April 22, 2013

  2. HB 2144 • House Bill 2144, passed by the 2013 General Assembly, allows a public elementary school that had an adjusted pass rate of less than 75 percent on the Standards of Learning reading assessments administered during the 2011-2012 school year to apply to the Board of Education for a two-year waiver from the third grade Standards of Learning (SOL) assessment requirement in science or history and social science, or both. Elementary schools that apply for a two-year waiver must satisfy certain conditions to be granted the waiver. The waiver expires on July 1, 2015.

  3. SOL Institutes Fall 2013 • 4 SOL Institutes • Tentative dates and locations: • First week October – Southwest (Wytheville) • October 8 – Tidewater • October 25 – NOVA • October 29 – Central VA • Agenda: • elementary & secondary sessions • Reading/vocabulary workshop • Writing Workshop • Using Primary Sources Integration of SOL • 4 participants per division: (1) central office, (1) HS teacher, (1) MS teacher, (1) elementary teacher

  4. SOL Credit Accommodations • The student must meet the following criteria to be eligible to receive credit accommodations for the Standard Diploma: • a current IEP or 504 plan • a disability that precludes him or her from achieving and progressing commensurate with grade level expectations, but is learning on grade level content • needs significant instructional supports to access grade level Standards of Learning (SOL) content and to show progress • might not be expected to achieve required standard and verified credits in the standard time • Supt’s Memo 105-13

  5. NCTE Convention

  6. Lexiles The Lexile conversion chart has been moved to an SSWS application. New Reading tests will not have Lexile scores until Fall 2013.

  7. SOL Reading Cut Scores

  8. SOL Writing Cut Scores

  9. SOL Instruction Resources

  10. FAQ

  11. Text-Dependent Questions

  12. SOL Assessment Notes • Spring 2013: Additional reading practice items have been released (grades 3-8) • Spring 2015: Released English SOL tests • 15% of the reading/writing tests will be TEI • NO FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTIONS

  13. SOL Assessment Notes • Stand-alone items, testing all 3 reporting categories, will remain as a block of test items but may have a different location • Emphasis words (most, main, best) will not be emphasized on any SOL test • Grade 3 Reading Test will not contain items emphasizing the words NOT or EXCEPT • Supt’s Memo #214-12

  14. SOL Assessment Notes • All online reading and writing tests will include a • sample TEI question • Reading and writing tests will contain a variety of short and long passages; paired passages in Grade 8 and EOC only this year (spring 2013) • Grade 3 Research is tested in Reading • (3.7 a-b comprehension of print and electronic resources) • Grade 3-5 reading tests will assess cross-curricular words (example: sediment)

  15. SOL Assessment Notes • TEI Section Review Screen FAQ: • Q. If drag & drop questions do not indicate the number of responses, and only 1 answer is chosen, does it appear in the Section Review Screen as "answered?"  • A. Drag and drop items generally have bays to move answers into.  If there are two bays, then the item will not show as answered until both bays have been used. 

  16. SOL Assessment Notes • TEI Section Review Screen FAQ: • Q. If no specific number of answers is indicated, "Which words are synonyms for _____”     • If a student chooses two answers and there are three, will the item show up as answered on the item review screen   • A. If hot-spot questions do not indicate the number of responses, the question will show as answered once one answer is selected

  17. SOL Assessment Notes • TEI Section Review Screen FAQ: • A. Another example is a drag/drop punctuation question.  Once one bay has been filled, the question will show as answered, so there is no clue as to how many bays need to be filled. • A. If an item specifies a number of correct answers, then the question will only show as answered once a student has selected that many answers. 

  18. Writing Prompts Released

  19. 2010 English Standards of LearningWeb Page

  20. Blueprints

  21. English SOL Institutes Resources

  22. Teacher Direct

  23. Contact Information Virginia Department of Education Tracy Fair Robertson English Coordinator Tracy.Robertson@doe.virginia.gov 804-371-7585 Thomas Santangelo Elementary English Specialist Thomas.Santangelo@doe.virginia.gov 804-225-3203 Jackie Kelley English Specialist Jacquelyn.Kelley@doe.virginia.gov 804-786-2484 Assessment Office Student_assessment@doe.virginia.gov 804-225-2102

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