C.R.E.S.T. New Texas Test Design Five Part Recorded Webinar Series. ($50 Per Part....$250 for all Five Parts....over 100 Hours of Online Modeling!)
C.R.E.S.T. Online Recorded Five Part Training Series:
(CREST is an acronym that stands for: Constructed Response, Revising, Reading, Editing, Extended/Essay, Short, Textual New Item Type Training)
THIS PRICE INCLUDES BOTH DIGITAL AND CLASS SET HARD COPIES OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT READING AND WRITING MATERIALS SENT TO YOU BY EMAIL AND USPS WITHIN 24 HOURS OF PURCHASE.
In addition, the fee includes digital access to all online practice tests produced during the current school year in the multiple choice and new item type formats of constructed, short answer, and extended essay response questions.
I have to say that this is a great value since you will be receiving over 100 hours of content specific training for 1/4 to 1/2 the price of a 6 hour training, depending on when you purchase it.
IMPORTANT DIRECTIONS WHEN PICKING YOUR QUANTITY OF TRAININGS!!!
Enter ONE QUANTITY FOR EACH OF THE FIVE PARTS that you would like to purchase at $50 each, and write in the comments/notes section which ones you want to buy by entering the session numbers. Each video link and related materials will be emailed to the address you enter when checking out of the store on the designated date mentioned.
NOTE: All teachers/schools/districts who purchase all five sessions will be entered into a raffle for a free training at your campus or district with teachers or students while teachers observe! In addition, all teachers who purchase one or more sessions will receive one hard copy classroom set of 25 Advanced ELAR & Writing Folders and 25 Reading, Editing, Revising, Short Answer/Extended/Essay Response Graphic Organizers sent by USPS as well as digital copies by email.
The benefit of this recorded webinar series is that you get to watch it and learn all about the new test design for STAAR on your own timeline over the summer in five sessions! Each session will be two to three hours in length and released over a period of five weeks. This allows you plenty of time to watch and take notes and plan for next year for as much or little as you want and still have the convenience of resting and relaxing with family and friends to recuperate and re-energize over the summer.
DESCRIPTION OF EACH SESSION TO PREPARE FOR APRIL 2023 TESTS:
All sessions will be modeled using hundreds of visual, verbal, auditory, and kinesthetic type strategies and techniques to engage and capture the minds and hearts of all of your students!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE AVAILABILITY DATES OF EACH TRAINING!!!
EACH ONLINE RECORDED LESSON THROUGHOUT THE SERIES WILL BE SENT IN 30 MINUTE TO TWO-HOUR SEGMENTS FROM JUNE UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER.
PART ONE HAS MORE VIDEO LESSONS TO MAKE SURE WE BUILD A STRONG FOUNATION IN CONVENTIONS AT THE BEGINNING AND ALL THROUGOUT THE YEAR.
PART ONE: EDITING/CONVENTIONS/GRAMMAR
I REALLY BELIEVE IN EMPHASIZING QUALITY OVER QUANTITY, SO THE ENTIRE SERIES WILL BE RELEASED OVER A PERIOD OF ABOUT 16 WEEKS FOR THE OVER 100 HOURS OF CONTENT.
AUDIENCE: READING TEACHERS FROM ALL GRADE LEVELS
3rd through 5th grade reading students will have two editing grammar based conventions passages and one extended/essay question worth up to four points on its conventions value. The combined total E.R. (Editing and Revising) will have 15 to 17 questions worth a total of 24-26 points including the CUPSS questions and conventions portion of the extended/essay question.
6th through 8th grade reading students will have two editing grammar based conventions passages and one extended/essay question worth up to four points on its conventions value. The combined total E.R. (Editing and Revising) will have 17 to 19 questions worth a total of 26-28 points including the CUPSS questions and conventions portion of the extended essay response questions.
9th and 10th grade reading students will two editing grammar based conventions passages and one extended /essay question worth up to four points on its conventions value. The combined total E.R. (Editing and Revising) will have 21-23 questions worth a total of 30-32 points including the CUPSS questions and the convention portion of the extended essay response.
A suggested timeline will be given for modeling and reviewing the skills of capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling, and sentence boundary problems like run-ons and fragments. Grade level appropriate editing sentences, paragraphs, and passages will be given for all teachers.
PART TWO: REVISING
AUDIENCE: READING TEACHERS FROM ALL GRADE LEVELS
3rd through 5th grade reading students will have two revising organization and development of content based passages and one extended/essay question worth up to six points of its total value depending on the answering of the question text based evidence given, and development of the response. The combined total E.R. (Editing and Revising) will have 15 to 17 questions worth a total of 24-26 points including the ARM (Adding, Removing/Replacing, Moving) words, phrases, transitions and sentence questions and organization/development portion of the extended/essay question.
6th through 8th grade reading students will have two revising organization and development of content based passages and one extended/essay question worth up to six points of its total value depending on the answering of the question text based evidence given, and development of the response. The combined total E.R. (Editing and Revising) will have 17 to 19 questions worth a total of 26 to 28 points including the ARM (Adding, Removing/Replacing, Moving) words, phrases, transitions and sentence questions and organization/development portion of the extended/essay question.
9th and 10th grade reading students will have two revising organization and development of content based passages and one extended/essay question worth up to six points of its total value depending on the answering of the question text based evidence given, and development of the response. The combined total E.R. (Editing and Revising) will have 21 to 23 questions worth a total of 30-32 points including the ARM (Adding, Removing/Replacing, Moving) words, phrases, transitions and sentence questions and organization/development portion of the extended/essay question.
A suggested timeline will be given for modeling and reviewing the skills of adding, removing/replacing/moving words, phrases, transitions, and sentences. Grade level appropriate revising sentences, paragraphs, and passages will be given for all teachers.
PARTS 3, 4, AND 5 DESCRIBED BELOW WILL COINCIDE WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE MOST PART. YOU WILL NOTICE THAT MANY OF THE CONSTRUCTED TYPE FORMAT OF QUESTIONS BUILD A FOUNDATION FOR THE SHORT ANSWER, AND THE SHORT ANSWER GOES OVER THE FIRST TWO STEPS REQUIRED IN WRITING A STRONG EXTENDED ESSAY RESPONSE.
PART THREE: CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE TYPE ONE POINT QUESTIONS AUDIENCE: ALL TESTED GRADE LEVELS AND SUBJECTS
Types of One and Two Point Constructed Type Response Questions:
string of text, number, word. phrase, inline choice, select answer(s) from a drop down menu, match table grid items to the correct response, hot text: cite evidence by selecting highlighted text in a sentence, paragraph or extended reading, multi-select: more thank one correct answer to a question, mult-part A & B: answer to part B is dependent on part A, drag and drop: evaluate a given # of options: words, numbers, & symbols AND drag response to an area student thinks it belongs, hot spot: select one or more areas of a graphic as the response, graphing: graph responses include-bar, point & function graphs and/or solution sentences, equation editor: students will enter equations and inequalities
Grade level appropriate one point examples in sentence, paragraph, and passage format will be included and modeled in each subject.
THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 61 ONE AND TWO POINT QUESTIONS BASED ON TEST DESIGN BLUEPRINTS. HERE IS THE NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTED TYPE RESPONSE QUESTIONS BY GRADE LEVEL AND SUBJECT:
3rd-8th Grade Reading about 2 to 3 questions each
3rd Math 7 questions
4th/5th Math 8 questions
5th Grade Science 7 questions
6th Grade Math 7 questions
7th/8th Grade Math/Science 8 questions
8th Grade Social Studies 9 questions
9th/10th Grade English 3 questions each
PART FOUR SHORT ANSWER TEXT BASED RESPONSE TWO POINT QUESTIONS
AUDIENCE: THE TESTED GRADES WILL BE ALL READING GRADE LEVELS SOCIAL STUDIES, AND SCIENCE, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ALL SUBJECTS AND GRADE LEVELS BEGIN TO TEACH OPEN-ENDED WRITING IN COMPLETE SENTENCES
For the purpose of modeling and mentoring differentiated instruction techniques, several strategies will be taught to help your students with the correct structure and organization needed to answer question with textual based evidence to receive the two points without being too formulaic. A student friendly checklist/rubric will be given to allow your kids to verify they have done the requirements needed to score a two on these type of questions.
(For those of you who are not aware, these type of questions will receive one point for correctly answering the question that is being asked and a second point for textual evidence that both supports the answer and ties directly to the question.)
PART FIVE: EXTENDED/ESSAY RESPONSE 5/10 POINTS QUESTIONS
AUDIENCE: ALL READING/ELAR TEACHERS
I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS SIGN UP FOR THIS SESSION AS WELL TO PROVIDE STUDENTS MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO PRACTICE AND ACCEL AT EXTENDED/ESSAY RESPONSE TYPE QUESTIONS.
A suggested timeline will be shared on how to effectively increase the expectations and level of rigor for these types of questions so that they are taught as a process over time. It is unrealistic and unreasonable to ask students to be writing 5/10 point questions every week or worse yet, every day from the very beginning of the school year. Several age and grade level appropriate verbal, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic strategies and techniques will be modeled to teach the very difficult and rigorous skill of extended/essay responses that will be very easy to remember and apply by your students.
