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Direct linkMcCormick, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
When a language arts curriculum provided students with the opportunity to translate meaning across sign systems (that is, from poetry to dance), numerous benefits were noted. Transmediation, the translation of meaning from one sign system to another, led students to analyze compositional structures and to enhance their use of academic language…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Arts, Figurative Language, Poetry
Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
This document presents writing samples that have been annotated to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Standards for particular types of writing--argument, informative/explanatory text, and narrative--in a given grade. Each of the samples exhibits at least the level of quality required to meet the Writing standards for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods
Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Garnier, Helen; Pascal, Jenny; Valdes, Rosa – Educational Assessment, 2002
This article reports the technical quality of a measure describing the quality of classroom assignments piloted in the Los Angeles Unified School District's proposed new accountability system. For this study, 181 teachers were sampled from 35 schools selected at random. Participating teachers submitted three language arts assignments with samples…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Accountability, Academic Achievement, Assignments
Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1990
This handbook, intended for English language arts teachers, principals, curriculum and testing specialists, superintendents, and all educators interested in preparing students for the grade 8 California Assessment Program (CAP) writing assessment, provides the practitioner with information about the content of the test, the rationale underlying…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Mollet, Joyce; Mollet, David – 2000
On November 17, 1995 the following news item appeared in "Time Magazine": "Long-lost cave reveals burial tombs of Maccabees." You (the student) are a journalist who has been asked by your editor to follow up that news item with an in-depth feature a two page spread with text and graphics entitled "The Life and Times of…
Descriptors: Culture, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1994
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of high school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at Year One of the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS). The second section presents the scoring guide for…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools, Language Arts
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1994
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of elementary school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at Year One of the California Learning Assessment System. The second section presents the scoring guide for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Language Arts
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of high school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at the California's new English-language arts assessment. The second section presents the scoring guide for…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools, Language Arts
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of elementary school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at the changes which make up the new English-language arts assessment. The second section presents the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Language Arts
Boilon, Susan – 2000
A U.S. frontier theme park is opening in your (the student's) home town. The featured adventure rides will be forms of transportation used in the late 1700s to early 1800s to journey west across the Appalachian mountains. Each ride represents an historically accurate time and place. The students need maps identifying where the mode of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 5, Information Literacy, Intermediate Grades
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of middle grades reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at the changes which make up the new English-language arts assessment. The second section presents the scoring…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Middle School Students
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1987
The language arts component of the California State "Model Curriculum Guides" series, this document sets guidelines for the elementary and middle school English language arts curriculum. The guide suggests a learning sequence--core, integrated, and across the curriculum--and delineates concepts, skills, and activities appropriate for…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking
