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WRITING ROADMAP 2.0

WRITING ROADMAP 2.0. VAUGHN RHUDY, COORDINATOR West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Accountability. Writing Roadmap 2.0. Provided by WVDE at no cost to counties Available to all students Grades 3 – 12 Available to all counties, schools, teachers (Aug. 15)

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WRITING ROADMAP 2.0

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  1. WRITING ROADMAP 2.0 VAUGHN RHUDY, COORDINATOR West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Accountability

  2. Writing Roadmap 2.0 • Provided by WVDE at no cost to counties • Available to all students • Grades 3 – 12 • Available to all counties, schools, teachers (Aug. 15) • Unlimited practice • Sept. – June

  3. Rationale • Improve student writing • Emphasize writing on all grade levels • Writing Assessment -- grades 4, 7 and 10 • Prepare for 2009 WESTEST 2 • Grades 3 – 11 • RLA Standard 2 : Writing • Practice for national assessments • 2011 NAEP • ACT/SAT Writing

  4. Product Improvements • Additional prompts – shelf • 66 calibrated prompts • 10 practice prompts • Instructor-created prompts • Unlimited number • Security • Mozilla Firefox • Internet Explorer(Microsoft)

  5. Product Improvements • Customize interface • Iterative writing mode • Single or multiple sections • Enable or disable instructional hints • thesaurus, spell check, grammar tree, tutor functions • 508 compliance • Visually impaired • Text-to-speech capability

  6. Product Improvements • Flagging of essays • Requires teacher review before scoring • Scoring algorithm • Improvement in scoring validity • 4, 5 and 6 point rubric scale • Home Report

  7. Rubric Comparison West Virginia Rubric Writing Roadmap Rubric ORGANIZATION IDEAS & CONTENT CONVENTIONS WORD CHOICE VOICE CONVENTIONS • ORGANIZATION • DEVELOPMENT • SENTENCE STRUCTURE • WORD CHOICE/GRAMMAR USAGE • MECHANICS

  8. Genres West Virginia Writing Roadmap NARRATIVE DESCRIPTIVE EXPOSITORY/ INFORMATIVE PERSUASIVE • NARRATIVE • DESCRIPTIVE • INFORMATIVE • PERSUASIVE

  9. Guided Demonstration Writing Roadmap 2.0: http://www.ctb.com/mktg/roadmap/overview.jsp PRODUCT TOUR: • Student Trainer Demo • Teacher Trainer Demo

  10. Access to Writing Roadmap 2.0 • Website address: www.writingroadmap2.com • Site code • Username • Password

  11. Support/Contact Information West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Accountability Vaughn Rhudy, Coordinator vrhudy@access.k12.wv.us 304-558-2546

  12. Support/Contact Information CTB/McGraw-Hill Technical Support: 866-282-2250

  13. KEY WEB ADDRESSES • http://wvde.state.wv.us/ West Virginia Department of Education • http://oaa.k12.wv.us Office of Assessment and Accountability • http://www.ctb.com CTB/McGraw-Hill • http://www.writingroadmap2.com Writing Roadmap 2.0 • http://www.ctb.com/mktg/roadmap/overview.jsp Writing Roadmap 2.0 Product Tour

  14. THANKS!

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