Wall Overall: Some General Wall Thoughts

ISAT Checklist Are you ready?

Wall Overall: Some general “wall” thoughts.

 Place all math posters in one area; reading in a separate area.

 Can the students read the posters from across the room?

 Keep “like posters” together – 12 Powerful Words should be together, Genres, Math Extended Response with Math Extended Response example, all the Extended Response posters, etc.

 Wall walk – with the students decide what posters should be up for ISAT and where they should go.

What should be up for Reading? (All are grade level specific.)

 Genres – with a definition and a few examples of each genre

 Extended Response – you cannot have a step-by-step or the rubric but you can have the following:

o An example of an ER that you did in class together that is color coded.

o The step-by-step next to it in the same colors. I would put that up now, and practice turning the steps around so that only the colors show. You can have the colors left up as long as the words do not show.

o Cool sentence starters – put your Author Says, your This Shows That, etc on separate posters – near your example. Call them cool paragraphs have these sentences…Color code to match your ER example.

 Graphic Organizers for comprehension skills such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, ways to help infer, summary, etc. that you have worked on together as a class.

 Story and Literary Elements with definitions, examples.

 Word walls with common affixes and root, compound, synonyms, and antonyms words in color coding.

 Some “tricky words” such as all the different ways that ISAT asks questions.

Math Posters: (Grade Level Specific.)  Multiplication tables

 Extended Response and example of one that you did together

 Geometric shapes and definitions and visual example

 Area and perimeter – definition and visual example

 Problem solving in arithmetic and measurement

 An example of data interpretation

 Order and compare

 Classification

ISAT Checklist Are you ready? – Lesson Ideas

ISAT Lesson Plans – all lessons are ISAT lessons.

 Are you addressing the objectives that DEA tells you to address? Is data driving your instruction?  Standard addressed – say it, write it. Have students discuss it – link it to ISAT.  Teach lesson with focused lesson planning aligned to ISAT  Finish lesson with repeat of standard addressed – say it, write it, have students discuss it.  Assess with any of the following – ISAT practice test items, DEA probes, Study Island or ISAT Coach materials.

Preparing for ISAT:

 Are you teaching an ISAT lesson daily – 45minutes to 1 hour that is a specific ISAT lesson?  Do you have a school wide ISAT practice session set up weekly? IE on Friday at 10:00 – all ISAT tested grades are in an ISAT practice test – full ISAT mode (whole school, quiet, read directions like ISAT, time period like ISAT, etc).  Have you practiced at least twice weekly ISAT Extended Response for both Math and Reading? Have you shortened the time to 15 minutes or less?  Are you practicing on grade level reading passages that are ISAT length?