Reading and Writing COE Inclusion Bank

1. Reading and Writing COE Inclusion Bank Lesley Klenk COE AdministratoR

2. What we will cover today • The calendar for implementing the Inclusion Bank • How and why the Reading and Writing COEs now use only inclusion passages, tasks, and prompts • Rules for implementing the Inclusion Bank for Reading and Writing COEs • How the passages, tasks and prompts were developed • Tour of the Reading and Writing Inclusion site on the COE webpage www.coe.k12.wa.us • How you can write passages, tasks, and prompts for possible inclusion in next year’s Inclusion Bank

3. The calendar for implementing the Reading and Writing Inclusion Bank • June 15, 2012—passages, tasks, and prompts from 2007-2012 are no longer to be submitted in COEs beginning January 2013 • June 15, 2012—Inclusion Bank passages, tasks, and prompts are available in the online COE system and through a paper-exemption process for January 2013 submission • June 2013 only Online COEs will be accepted

4. School year 2012-2013 • A transition period will take place during the January 2013 submission for reading and writing. Some schools developed their own tasks prior to the June 15 deadline. OSPI is honoring the inclusion of those work samples both online and in paper binders. A few districts have requested an exemption from the Online COE. These districts and schools might include “retired state passages and tasks” in their collections due to lack of knowledge about the Inclusion Bank. If this happens, the work samples will be scored. The district will be contacted about the requirement to use Inclusion Bank materials. In June 2013, the non-inclusion bank work samples will not be scored.

5. 2007-2012 State-developed passages, Tasks and Prompts are “retiring” • For the most part, (there are a few exceptions) previously-used state COE reading passages and tasks and the COE writing prompts have been “retired.” • The previously-used passages, tasks, and prompts from 2007-2012 are now completely available for teachers for classroom instruction and are available on a new CD

6. Why are the old passages, tasks, and prompts no longer going to be accepted in COEs? • They are too familiar to teachers and students • They have sometimes been used as instructional tools as opposed to measures of skills • Some of the passages, tasks, and prompts are out dated • Some of the task questions are poorly written or not identified with the correct targets • Many of the teacher-developed tasks and prompts were taken directly from classroom assignments and did not align to the state standards • Some passages, tasks, and prompts were difficult, uninteresting, and sometimes not authentic to students’ lives

7. What happens now to the state passages, tasks, and prompts? • A few of the previously-used passages, tasks, and prompts will be in the Inclusion Bank. The rest of them will be on the Reading and Writing OSPI Moodle and/or the new CD. They are to be used exclusively in classroom instruction. • A new CD of every previously-used passage, task, and prompt is now ready for dissemination to the field. There is a place here on the Moodle where you can request a copy and it will be mailed to you. • The previously-used materials are now yours…you can use them—over 100 tasks and prompts—in your classroom. • The Moodle address is: http://moodle.ospi.k12.wa.us

8. What is the goal of implementing an Inclusion Bank? • It includes all new passages, tasks, and prompts your students can select and submit in their COE • It is a protected set of assessments that can only be used by COE educators • It includes carefully selected passages, tasks, and prompts have been developed and “vetted” through a specific process • It aligns with the Washington State content standards and offers choices to students • What is the result? A stable set of assessments that are equally rigorous, consistent in format, and thoroughly scorable.

9. Rules for Using the Reading and Writing Inclusion Bank • All passages, tasks, and prompts are written to ensure equity in passage difficulty, interest to students, and alignment of questions with reading targets • Inclusion Bank passages, tasks, and prompts are already loaded into the Online COE and are easily accessible • Passages, tasks, and prompts cannot be used in any instructional setting. Teaching the reading target skills is absolutely appropriate, but classroom discussion about the content, or practicing the questions, or peer editing and/or discussion of the prompts is not allowed

10. Online and Classroom Questions Can I print out the passages for my students? Yes you can. Treat them like test materials. Collect them at the end of class and do not allow anyone to make copies of them Can my students write or word process their answers and then copy and paste them into the Online COE boxes? Yes. We’d prefer that the students gain confidence and answer right in the boxes, but you decide when they are ready. Can I choose the passages for either individual students or my whole class and explain why I chose those passages? No. Part of the selection of the passages is matching the themes/main ideas with your students’ own interests. It is not about your interests…

11. What is the criteria for creating passages, tasks, and prompts that are in the Inclusion Bank? • In Informational passages, there must be science, history, and functional text • In Literary passages, there must be short stories, essays, poems, and autobiographies/biographies • In both genres, the themes/main ideas must be current, timeless/timely, and reflective of human experience • The passages and prompts must be written in an engaging manner so topics are interesting, accessible, authentic and relevant for students

12. Some particular criteria used for developing the Inclusion Bank • All passages must have an original approach to content • Passages should be between 1500-1800 words, although many of the passages do not follow this rule…next year more passages will as they are created • Both Literary and Informational passages must include some sort of text feature • Events, people, objects, historical artifacts, and scientific information must be accurate and verifiable • Actual statements by real people may be quoted in the text but, the citation will be included in the “Works Consulted” section at the end of the passage

13. The development of the Inclusion Bank for the Reading and Writing COE • Teachers submitted passages, tasks, and prompts to OSPI for review; some submissions were chosen for the Inclusion Bank; others were placed on the OSPI Moodle for practice • COE staff members created the criteria and wrote some of the passages • Some retired-HSPE passages were included to round out the numbers; they will most likely be removed after the June submission

14. How does the Inclusion Bank work? • Let’s go to the COE webpage • Go to the Reading section • Go to the Inclusion Bank and select either literary or informational. There are two pieces to this section of the Inclusion Bank: • Informational (also Literary) Passage Extract—this section provides you with the first paragraph of the passage • Informational Task Matrix—this section gives you the title of the passage and the target and questions in the task • Reading Planning Forms show you some different combinations that might appeal to your students

15. Earn clock hours by sharing your COE work • You can earn up to four clock hours for each set of materials • We will share them on the Moodle as examples of embedding the COE in schools • Choose 1 of the 3 types of COE work: individual student, student embedded in a traditional English class, or a entire COE class • Upload the following four pieces using solely previously-used state passages, tasks, and/or prompts as support: • A copy of your syllabus or timeline • A description of your use of the materials in your class • An example lesson using the targets or modes • Examples of student work responding to a task or prompt

16. Contact Information Lesley Klenk, COE Program Administrator Email: lesley.klenk@k12.wa.us Phone: 360-725-6330 Amanda Mount, COE Operations Specialist Email: amanda.mount@k12.wa.us Phone: 360-725-6037 Phone: Technical Support for the Online Reading and Writing COE Email: coe@esd113.og Phone: 360-464-6708