ELA and English Regents examinations into literacy and content area lessons in both languages. Students listen to or read a selection. Students organize the content of the selection on a graphic organizer or take notes.
Students generate a written response based on a prompt.
The type of written response changes over a period of time to include reflective, persuasive, summary, chronological, process, biographical, and literary analysis writing. Performance Assessment Strategies Teachers use such performance assessment strategies as primary trait scoring guides and performance rubrics to collect evidence of student growth. This strategy also promotes important language acquisition skills such as listening with intent and using metadiscourse strategies, as well as procedural knowledge Evidence that the Practice Was Effective Teachers have documented growth of individual students by saving the scoring guides used to evaluate the written response selections of each student in performance portfolios. Informal analysis shows growth. That is, there is documentation of individual student growth in specific comprehension, test-taking and writing competencies.