TAKS Across the Curriculum: The Role of the Library Media Specialist

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TAKS Across the Curriculum The Role of the
Library Media Specialist

• Casey McCreary
• cmccrear_at_tea.state.tx.us
• Assistant Director of Reading
• Division of Curriculum Professional
  Development
• Texas Education Agency

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TAKS Reading Grades 3-8

• Not published but more authentic
• Narrative, expository, and functional
• Longer but fewer
• Paired selections at grades 4-8
• Paragraphs numbered where appropriate
• Photographs, illustrations
• Clear and focused item stems
• View TAKS Grade 3 Reading expository selection
  (from TAKS Information Booklet)

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(No Transcript)
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Sample Questions TAKS Reading Grade 3
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Sample Questions TAKS Reading Grade 3
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Sample Questions TAKS Reading Grade 3
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TAKS Writing Grades 4 and 7

• Composition
• No unique purposes for writing
• Open-ended prompts
• Student able to choose the approach that best
  expresses his/her ideas about the topic
• View sample of TAKS Grade 4 writing prompt

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TAKS Grade 4 Writing Prompt
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TAKS Writing Grades 4 and 7

• Revising and editing (multiple choice)
• Samples of student writing/peer editing
• Numbered sentences
• No isolated assessment of skills
• View sample of TAKS Grade 7 peer editing
  selection

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TAKS Grade 7 Peer Editing Selection
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TAKS Reading Grade 9 and Grades 10 11 ELA

• Read one triplet that consists of a thematically
  linked
• Published literary work (short story, excerpt
  from novel, memoir)
• Published expository piece (newspaper or magazine
  article, essay)
• Created visual representation (advertisement, web
  page, table/chart/graph)

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TAKS Grade 9 Reading and Grades 10 11 ELA

• Authentic Literature
• Longer but fewer selections
• Numbered paragraphs
• Photographs, illustrations
• Open-ended items (text selections only)
• multiple-choice items
• View sample triplet for TAKS ELA Grade 11

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Triplet - Literary Selection
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Triplet - Expository Selection
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Triplet Viewing Representing
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TAKS Writing Grades 10 11 ELA

• Composition
• Prompt thematically related to reading selections
• Composition may be developed using selections,
  personal experiences, movies, television, etc.
• Sample writing prompt for grade 11 triplet
• Revising and editing (multiple-choice)
• Samples of student writing/peer editing
• Numbered sentences
• No isolated assessment of skills

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TAKS and Dictionaries

• Dictionaries (source-TAKS Information Booklets)
• Allowed for TAKS Reading Grade 9, ELA Grades 10
  11, Writing Grade 7
• Minimally 1 dictionary for every 5 students in
  testing situation
• District or personal dictionaries
• Reminder-current dictionaries have additional
  features that may be helpful to students during
  testing (e.g., synonyms and idiomatic
  expressions)

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Selection of Dictionaries

• Options include a dictionary, a thesaurus, or a
  dictionary/thesaurus combination
• As with textbook adoptions the selection of
  text for campus libraries, districts have local
  control decision making authority
• During the selection process keep in mind the
  instructional needs of the student population on
  your campus

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Dictionary Use for TAKS Field Test (Grades 7
Writing, 9 Reading, 10 11 ELA)

• Source TEA fax to district coordinators April
  17, 2002
• Dictionaries with separate grammar/style guides
  are allowed on the field test if district
  personnel seal or clip that section closed
• Clip/seal not necessary for TAKS Reading Grade 9
  (no R E section in Grade 9)
• Field Tests April 22-May 10, 2002

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Will the same rules that apply on the field test
apply in 2003?

• Data and feedback from the field test concerning
  many aspects of the test, including dictionary
  use, will be evaluated
• After evaluation of field test data final
  decisions will be made
• TEA will make the test work for you no matter
  what dictionary you have

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The Role of the Librarian

• Encourage daily use of dictionaries as a tool to
  help students with reading comprehension
• Remind district staff of the important role that
  librarians play in providing resources for their
  campus
• Not only for the selection of dictionaries, but
  also for providing resources for both the TEKS
  and the TAKS

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Library Resources that Support TAKS and TEKS

• Provide and encourage use of the following for
  teachers students at all grade levels
• Expository materials from age appropriate
  journals, newspapers, magazines, brochures, etc.
• On-line text
• Graphic representations such as Venn diagrams,
  story webs, maps and charts
• Spend funds on appropriate and authentic
  materials vs. buying test prep materials

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Library Resources that Support TAKS and TEKS,
cont.

• Pair expository materials with related literary
  pieces (e.g., different versions of the same
  story, or a historical fiction selection with a
  biography)
• Prepare bibliographies of paired selections
• Prepare bibliographies that include culturally
  diverse text that represent the wide range of the
  student population in Texas
• Use text that supports reading in the content
  areas

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Library Resources that Support TAKS and TEKS,
cont.

• In preparation of the high school TAKS focus on
  use of the following in middle school
• Authentic literature
• Triplets (using literary text, expository text
  visual representations that are thematically
  linked)
• Visual representations (e.g., political cartoons,
  web pages, advertisements)
• Reading skill instruction to prevent gap between
  elementary and high school

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TAKS and TEKS Resources for the Content Areas

• ELA and Reading http//www.tea.state.tx.us/curricu
  lum/rla.html
• Social Studies http//www.tea.state.tx.us/curricul
  um/social.html
• Mathematics http//www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/
  math.html
• Science http//www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/scie
  nce.html

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TAKS Resources

• ELA-Reading, Assessment or Library Listservs
  http//www.tea.state.tx.us/list/
• TAKS Power Point professional development slides
  http//www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/index.html
• TAKS Information Booklets http//www.tea.state.tx.
  us/student.assessment/taks/index.html

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TAKS ELA-Reading Contacts

• TEA ELA-Reading Curriculum contacts
• Muffet Livaudais, Casey McCreary, Sarah
  Crippen [phone]
• TEA ELA-Curriculum Assessment contacts
  Victoria
  Young, Joan Mims, Barbara Tutt [phone]