Preparing for PARCC
Using PARCC Writing Rubrics to Inform Instruction –
Part 2
Creating a Corrective Instruction Plan
This post is part of our
blog series on PARCC. In this series, we offer tips and strategies you can use
to ensure that your students perform at their very best on the PARCC tests.
Last
year, PARCC posted their writing rubrics for the Prose-Constructed Response
(PCR) and then revised them this past July.
In the
first post, we discussed how instructors can score their students’ essays by
creating item-specific guides. And we stressed that the only reason we assess
students is to identify their strengths and needs, which in turn enables us to
provide corrective instruction. In this post, we’ll show you how to analyze
students’ needs and create a corrective instruction plan to address these needs.
Analyzing Student Results
• Use the Analyzing Student Essays form and identify your
students’ needs.
• Based upon your analysis, what is
your class’s greatest need in relationship to constructing an on-demand LAT or
RST?
• Which students performed
exceptionally well? What was special about their essays?
• Which students displayed the
greatest needs? What are their needs and how will you provide corrective
instruction?
Consider Your Classes’ Needs
What did
you discover when you reviewed your classes’ essays? Below are some common needs:
• Students answered the prompt, but
wrote an open-ended question response instead of an essay.
• Students did not write an
introductory paragraph with a thesis statement.
• Students’ essays lacked structure
and organization.
• Students did not respond to all
parts of the PCR prompt.
• Students provided evidence but
did not link it to the reasons, topic sentences, and/or major claim.
• Students did not finish in time.
Create a Corrective Instruction
Plan
Use the Corrective Instruction Plan in this section. Based
upon your findings, what activities will you implement to address each class’s
greatest needs? Moreover, what is your plan
for providing assistance to individual students? Click on the links to access suggested activities.
• • Deconstructing
Essays
· • Honing
Understanding of Evidence
· • Creating
Advanced Arguments
· • Creating
Rubrics
· • Selecting
Literature
· • Constructing
PCRs
In this
two-part blog, Using PARCC Rubrics, we learned:
· • How to
create item-specific guides
· • How to
score our students’ LAT and RST essays
· • How to
analyze our students’ results
· • How to
provide corrective instruction to address student needs
If you have
any questions or comments about this content, please feel free to contact this
blog’s author, Victoria Pagonis at victoria.pagonis@standardssolution.com.
She will be happy to help you make preparing for PARCC a meaningful
learning experience.
Standards
Solution and Inspired Instruction offers 540 PARCC lesson plans, online
PARCC-like assessments with technology-enhanced items, PARCC workshops, and
PARCC demonstration lessons. Please
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