Making the Connection:

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Making the Connection

• Communication Arts Resources

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DESE provides many resources for Communication
Arts

• They are all valuable tools.
• They are all readily available on the DESE
  website.
• They are used to inform the MAP item writing
  process.
• They are all connected to one another.

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Grade- Level Expectations
Assessment Annotations/Content Specifications
Curriculum Frameworks
Show-Me Standards
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A connections example

• The Show-Me Standards
• Content CA 4 writing formally (such as reports,
  narratives, essays) and informally (such as
  outlines, notes)
• Process 2.1 plan and make written, oral and
  visual presentations for a variety of purposes
  and audiences

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• Communication Arts Curriculum Frameworks/Assessmen
  t Annotations
• grades 5-8, II.3.a.
• II.3. Create print and nonprint communications
  for various audiences and for a variety of
  purposes (CA 1, 4, 6-7)
• a. Select and use formats appropriate for
  audience and purpose (2.12.2)

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Scoring Guide Spring 2004 Grade 7 Communication
Arts Session 1

Item
No. 15 Imagine your teacher has asked you to
write a letter to your class in which you explain
the main points of the article. Use details
and/or examples from the article to support the
ideas in your letter. Scoring guide (Part A CA 3,
5 1.6)


2 points Response includes a complete
and reasonable explanation of the main points.

1 point Response includes a partial
explanation of the main points.

0 points Other (Part B CA 4
2.1) 1 point The letter contains THREE of the
following elements
heading (address and/or date)

salutation/greeting

indentation

written from
appropriate point of view

closing

signature 0 points Other
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• Achievement-Level Descriptors
• Communication Arts, Grade 7
• Proficient
• Writing
• Use precise language and organize writing in a
  logical manner
• Use ample details to support and develop ideas
• Use a variety of sentence structures
• Write for a variety of purposes and audiences
• Demonstrate control of Standard English

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• Communication Arts Show-Me
• Standard Interpretations
• Content Standards

4In Communication Arts, students in Missouri
public schools will acquire a solid foundation
which includes knowledge of and proficiency in
writing formally (such as reports, narratives,
essays) and informally (such as outlines,
notes).   This standard receives score points
from the formal essay in Session Two and from a
few of the longer constructed-response items in
Session One (such as written summaries of a
passage).
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2.1Students will demonstrate within and
integrate across all content areas the ability to
plan and make written, oral and visual
presentations for a variety of purposes and
audiences.   Obviously, for a statewide paper
and pencil test we have to focus on written
presentations for this standard (as opposed to
visual and oral presentations). But, since
anything a student writes could be considered a
written presentation, we have established a few
parameters. One key phrase in this standard is
purposes and audiences. For constructed
response items (Session One) to be considered as
a match for this standard, the item must specify
a writing situation, identifying a distinct
purpose and audience for the students response.
  Example Items Imagine that one of your
teachers has asked you to read this passage for
class and capture the essence of the argument in
a short journal response. In your journal entry,
briefly explain the three main points of the
article.   Write a short note to a friend telling
him or her what this passage is about.   Imagine
that the article you have just read was published
in your local newspaper. Write a short (no more
than ½ page) letter to the editor to express your
agreement or disagreement with the author of the
passage.
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• Crystal Reports
• Grade 7 Communication Arts IBD Report

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• Communication Arts Grade-Level Expectations
• Writing

Audience and Purpose
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Glossary of TermsCommunication Arts Grade-Level
Expectations

• This Glossary provides definitions/elaborations
  for terms that are shown in bold type in the
  Communication Arts Grade-Level Expectations
  these terms are underlined in this Glossary. The
  Glossary includes other terms in order to clarify
  important concepts in Communication Arts.
• Audience/awareness of audience writing for a
  specific purpose with a specific individual or
  group in mind (e.g., parents, peers, or a group
  of people who share a particular view of life or
  opinion)

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Communication Arts Model Curriculum

• Objectives from one of the draft units
• The student will write a note. (W3E, CA 4, 2.1)
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• The student will compose text to address two
  different audiences and for two different
  purposes using appropriate forms.
• (W3E, CA 4, 2.1)
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