February 10
Pre-Work
Please complete the prework prior to on Zoom start time of 6:00 pm.
Pre-work
We'd like to ask you to do a few things for your pre-work:
Please have one member of your team complete the Google Slide for your school to show the test of change work you've been working on. Please link any documents you'd like us to see.
Read the text, "Big Fish"
Complete the comprehension quick write in Step 1 of the comprehension task sheet.
Review both the Comprehension and the Furthering Comprehension task sheets.
"Big Fish"
After you have finished rereading and annotating the text, please compose a quick write in response to the following questions:
What’s the story about?
What do you learn about the characters?
In-Session Work
Please use this Padlet to post your theme after you've shared with a partner and made any necessary revisions. Please use the upvote feature on Padlet to agree with theme statements that you think are close to the target response.
Please add one or two of the things you did as a reader to understand the theme to our shared slide.
Reflection
How does the work of the two tasks support students to be successful with the STAAR DOL?
Materials for School Team Work
Please select the grade that your team would like to work with. Middle Schools, you may decide to work in grade-level teams or work together on one text. Please make sure that you are at least working with one other person.
Process:
Step 1: read and annotate the text for the big ideas/what the story is about.
Step 2: Look at the STAAR question. What do you need to know and be able to do to respond to the question? (This should always begin with comprehension)
Step 3: Working from what you understand about the story, and what students need to know and be able to do to respond to the STAAR question, craft a sequence of two or three questions that will support them to be success with the STAAR multiple-choice question.
Step 4: Design the task: what is the sequence of student centered routines students will engage in to respond to the high-level questions?
Please work with your team to create a slide as you draft your questions and sequnence of work. If we have time, we'll have some time to get feedback from each other.
Grade 6: "A Picture of Peace"
STAAR Question
What do student need to know and be able to do to successfully answer this question?
What is a sequence of two or three open ended questions that you can ask to help them be successful? Use the Task Analysis Guide to help you think about comprehension and anlysis questions.
Grade 7: Winter Hibiscus
STAAR Question
What do student need to know and be able to do to successfully answer this question?
What is a sequence of two or three open ended questions that you can ask to help them be successful? Use the Task Analysis Guide to help you think about comprehension and anlysis questions (point of view is an analysis question).
Grade 8: "The Lesson in Design"
STAAR Question
What do student need to know and be able to do to successfully answer this question?
What is a sequence of open ended questions that you can ask to help them be successful? Use the Task Analysis Guide to help you think about comprehension and anlysis questions.
English I: Excerpt from "Antaeus"
STAAR Question
What do student need to know and be able to do to successfully answer this question?
What is a sequence of two or three open ended questions that you can ask to help them be successful? Use the Task Analysis Guide to help you think about comprehension and anlysis questions.
English II: from "Miracle Polish"
STAAR Question
What do student need to know and be able to do to successfully answer this question?
What is a sequence of two or three open ended questions that you can ask to help them be successful? Use the Task Analysis Guide to help you think about comprehension and anlysis questions.
Bridge to Practice
The purpose of this bridge to practice is for you to continue to use a high-level comprehension task, a quick write to essay task, an analysis task, or a planned conversation as a Test of Change.
To complete this bridge to practice, do the following:
Continue to work with your improvement team to draft a high-level task in response to the next text that you'll be working with in the curriculum. If you need support working as a team to plan the task, this document might serve as a useful resource. Remember, even if you are planning for an analysis task, you should still begin with comprehension.
Then, work with your school improvement team to decide how you’ll study the enactment of the task (will you look at student work? Will you use exit slips?).
Use your task with students and collect a sample of student work.
Finally, come back together with your improvement team to study the student work and decide next steps (Adapt, Adopt, Abandon!).
Please be prepared to share how this work went when we meet together March 31st.