Preparing for Milestones

3rd Grade
Just in Time
March 3, 2016

Milestones Dates

April
April
April
April
April

18th-GMAS ELA Section 1&2

19th-GMAS ELA Section 3
21st-GMAS Math
25th-GMAS Science
27th-GMAS Social Studies

2014-2015 ELA Milestones

Data
In 4th Grade at BES, 38% of students performed at
level 3 or4 in ELA.
(GCPS average 44%)
In 4th Grade at BES, 33% of students performed at
level 3 or4 in ELA.
(GCPS average 46%)
In 5th Grade at BES, 32% of students performed at
level 3 or4 in ELA.
(GCPS average 49%)
Writing and Language makes up for 47% of
the ELA Milestones Test.

2014-2015 ELA Milestones

Data
In 3rd Grade at BES, 30% of students performed
at level 3 or4 for Extended Writing Task Idea
Development, Organization, and Coherence.
(GCPS average 30%) see SEVEN-POINT TWO-TRAIT RUBRIC
In 3rd Grade at BES, 64% of students performed
at level 3 for Extended Writing Task Language
Usage and Conventions. (GCPS average 65%)
In 3rd Grade at BES, 16% of students performed
at level 3 or 4 on the Narrative Writing
Response. (GCPS average 19%) see Narrative
Writing Item Rubric

2014-2015 ELA Milestones

Data
In 4th Grade at BES, 36% of students performed
at level 3 or4 for Extended Writing Task Idea
Development, Organization, and Coherence.
(GCPS average 33%)
In 4th Grade at BES, 71% of students performed
at level 3 for Extended Writing Task Language
Usage and Conventions. (GCPS average 70%)
In 4th Grade at BES, 22% of students performed
at level 3 or 4 on the Narrative Writing
Response. (GCPS average 25%)

2014-2015 ELA Milestones

Data
In 5th Grade at BES, 55% of students performed
at level 3 or4 for Extended Writing Task Idea
Development, Organization, and Coherence.
(GCPS average 56%)
In 5th Grade at BES, 83% of students performed
at level 3 for Extended Writing Task Language
Usage and Conventions. (GCPS average 84%)
In 5th Grade at BES, 24% of students performed
at level 3 or 4 on the Narrative Writing
Response. (GCPS average 38%)

Todays Purpose
Take a glance and last years data.
Look through the Item and Scoring
Sampler with a text rendering
protocol called First Impressions.
Look at the Seven Point-Two Trait
Rubric and the Narrative Rubric.
Look at examples.
Discuss next steps.

Possible Question Types

Write a summary of the story CR
Write your own story(about an event that
continues the story line from the passage)
NR
How are the main points in Passage 2
different from the main points in Passage 3?
CR
Think about the ideas in the two passages,
then write an informational piece explaining
the different ways people ..be sure to use
information from BOTH passages. ER

Lets Discuss Next Steps

What are the implications for this
data?
What are appropriate interventions
we need to put in place to maximize
the remaining instructional time we
have?
How can we use digital resources to
aid in our efforts?