Dear Parents,
As I mentioned in my previous e-mail, we have been
doing our STAR math and reading testing to see how much progress students have
made since we last took it in the fall. We also did a "load test" for the
Milestone which was just to test the system and see if it could handle the
volume of students being logged in at the same time.
Next week, we
will be taking a Write Score assessment. We opted to do this as a 3rd grade
team since it will provide us more guidance on what areas we still need to work
on it writing and give us a better idea of what kinds of tasks students will be
asked to do on the Milestone. Since it's on the computer also, it will serve as
a simulation of how we will be testing with the Milestone in April.
We know that the Milestone will be a more rigorous test than the
CRCT and we have been working hard to increase your students' ability to think
critically and make their own assessments of the information provided in more
than one text. For example, students analyzed whether or not pride is bad or
good after reading the fables "The Elephant and the Mouse" and "The Lion and
the Mouse". In February we will participate in another Milestone simulation
that will focus on Math. We are trying to make sure that we and the students
understand as much as we can about what to expect on the Milestone, since none
of us have seen it before. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or
concerns and look for report cards and ITBS results coming home tonight. Thanks
for all your support!!
Jenny M-G
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