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Spring 2015 Florida Standards Assessment

This document provides information about the requirements and expectations for fourth grade students taking the Spring 2015 Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) in ELA Writing and Math. It includes details about the writing prompts, grading rubric, types of questions, and the content covered in the assessments.

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Spring 2015 Florida Standards Assessment

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  1. Spring 2015 Florida Standards Assessment Requirements and Expectations for Fourth Grade Students

  2. Spring 2015 ELA Writing Component • Students will be required to respond to an opinion or informative writing prompt. • The writing component will be paper based. • Students will be given minutes to read any passages associated with the prompt and plan, write, revise, and edit their essays. • What is the largest difference between the FSA Writing and FCAT Writing tests? • Students must demonstrate the ability to pull evidence from the text to support their writing.

  3. Sample Writing Prompt Directions: Read the “Neat Is Nice, But Clutter Is Cool?” passage set. Neat Is Nice, But Clutter Is Cool? Too Much Stuff! Pictures from vacation, spelling tests, a plumber’s business card, a postcard from a relative, a dentist appointment reminder. What do all these things have in common? You might find all of them on your refrigerator door. Your refrigerator door can tell you more about your family than you might think. In 2012, scientists studied 32 families in Los Angeles. They found that most of these families had too much stuff. One easy way to tell if a family had too many things was to look at their refrigerator door. If there was a lot of clutter on the door, there was likely to be a lot of clutter in the house.

  4. Writing Prompt The readings talked about clutter and being tidy. Write an essay in which you give your opinion: Is clutter sometimes okay, or should you always try to be neat? Use the information from the passages in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can: • read the passages; • plan your essay; • write your essay; and • revise and edit your essay. Be sure to include • an introduction; • support for your opinion using information from the passages; and • a conclusion that is related to your opinion. Your writing should be in the form of a well-organized, multiparagraph essay. Write your answer in the space provided.

  5. Rubric and Grading • Students will be graded based on a 10 point scale, which is different from the traditional 6 point scale used for FCAT Writing. • Purpose, Focus, and Organization (4 Points) • Evidence and Elaboration (4 Points) • Conventions of Standard English (2 Points).

  6. Spring 2015 FSA ELA • Students will be required to examine different texts and answer various questions for each one. • The texts may be informational or literary and can cover a wide array of topics (word range will vary from 100-900 per passage).

  7. Information Texts • Primary Sources/Nonfiction • Historical documents (e.g., Bill of Rights) • Essays (e.g., informational, persuasive, analytical, historical, scientific) • Letters, journals, diaries • Secondary Sources/Nonfiction • Magazine articles • Newspaper articles • Editorials • Encyclopedia articles • Functional Materials • Consumer documents (e.g., warranties, manuals, contracts, applications) • Embedded in text (e.g., tables, charts, maps, graphs, illustrations, photographs, captions, text boxes) • How-to articles • Brochures, fliers • Schedules • Website pages

  8. Literary Texts • Literary Nonfiction • Biographical and autobiographical sketches • Diaries, memoirs, journals, letters • Essays (e.g., personal and classical narratives) • Critiques • Literary Fiction • Short stories • Poetry • Historical fiction • Fables • Folk tales, tall tales • Legends • Myths • Drama • Fantasy • Excerpts from longer works

  9. Spring 2015 FSA ELA • Types of Questions • Hot Text (Requires the student to select words or phrases from the text to answer questions using explicit information in the text as support). • Multiple Choice • Open Response • Reporting Categories and Percentage of Assessment • Key Ideas and Details (Literature and Informational): 15-25% • Craft and Structure (Literature and Informational) : 25-35% • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (Literature and Informational): 20-30% • Language and Editing (Literature or Informational): 15-25%

  10. Spring 2015 FSA Math Math for today’s student is a way of thinking, analyzing, and problem-solving using a variety of skills at one time.

  11. Spring 2015 FSA Math, Example One Florida Standards NOW: Tommy ran 27 times further than Eric ran. Eric ran 8 feet. Select the expressions that represents how far Tommy ran. o 27-8 o 27x8 o 8+27 o 27(8) o 8(20+7) What a student would need to notice about this problem is… 1. What operation is being demonstrated in this context…the understanding of multiplication. 2. The choices do not reflect an answer but rather how you COULD set the problem up. 3. The word “expressions” is not being highlighted so a student needs to understand that the word is plural and that there is more than 1 answer. 4. The format…five choices(multi-select) versus four choices (multiple choice). 5. A student must be able to recognize the different ways to show the same concept…rules for Parentheses, inside parentheses. *A student needs to be aware of all this information and they weren’t even asked to solve the problem.*

  12. Spring 2015 FSA Math Florida Standards in the PAST • Mr. Dean has 112 art students. He gave each student 15 dried beans to use for a project. What is the total number of dried beans Mr. Dean gave his students? • 127 • 1,680 • 16,800 • 5,600 What a student would need to notice about this problem is… • What operation is being demonstrated in this context…the understanding of multiplication. • They must solve the problem.

  13. Spring 2015 FSA Math, Example Two Florida Standards NOW: • Directions: Explain why the problem below cannot be solved by subtracting 2/3 - 1/3. Lauren has 2/3 of a foot of ribbon. She cuts off 1/3 of an inch of ribbon. How much ribbon does Lauren have now? What a student would need to notice about this problem is… 1. The directions given above the problem. 2. The unit of measurement that the fractions represent. 3. The rules for adding and subtracting fractions. 4. That there is reference to the fact that it cannot be solved by subtracting…so what does that mean?

  14. Spring 2015 FSA Math, Example Two In the PAST: Lauren has of a foot of ribbon to use for her project. What is equivalent to ? What a student would need to notice about this problem is… • That there is another fraction that is equal to the one given. • That they’re needing to use multiplication or division to find an equivalent fraction.

  15. Resources and Information • For additional information, visit http://fsassessments.org/ • Students and Parents Portal • Resources • FDOE Announcements and Schedules • Training Test Resources • Winter 2014–2015 FSA ELA Writing Component Field Test • Paper-Based Training Test Materials • Spring 2015 ELA Writing Component • Spring 2015 FSA ELA and Mathematics • Test Item Specifications • Test Design Summaries and Blueprints

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