• Renaissance Learning, software, web-based or inhouse
  Renaissance Solutions for reading, math, writing, standards mastery, and English language acquisition give educators something they've never had before—timely, accurate, objective information they can use to personalize instruction and accelerate learning for students of all ages and abilities.
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• Resources from IAMME regarding assessment changes.
  November 29, 2007 Resources of interest as related to IMAGE/ISAT: Historical Overview of ELLs and Testing Recommended AYP/AMAO Policies and Accommodations as approved by the Illinois Advisory Council on Bilingual Education on Nov 16 07 Making Accommodations and the End of the IMAGE by Judy Yturriago
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• Rigby ELL Assessment Kit Data Management Tool
  With the Rigby ELL Assessment Kit Data Management Tool CD-ROM, you can monitor and report progress of ongoing student assessments in all four domains of English language proficiencyListening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. The Data Management Tool also allows you to track progress in relation to TESOL standards and content standards, including English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science.
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• RubiStar Home
  RubiStar is a free tool to help a teacher make quality rubrics. RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. Read more ... Go to the tutorial (it includes information on changing categories, their headings and content)
  RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
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• SciLinks Tour
  SciLinks is a free service—all you need is a SciLinks-enabled textbook and a computer connected to the World Wide Web. And SciLinks is easy to use—just log on to the SciLinks site and enter a SciLinks number from the margin of your textbook. You will be offered a smorgasbord of teacher-approved Internet resources tied to that specific point in your book! Tools for generating question pools for tests are also available. If you have just one book from the several companies that provide this resource, you would know the codes to access the selected sites.
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• Spanish Language Arts Standards — WIDA Portal
  These are the new Spanish Language Arts Standards, aligned with the English language arts standards of Illinois and Wisconsin
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• Standards-based Writing Rubrics from Greece Central School District NY
  Rubrics provide clear criteria for evaluating a product or performance on a continuum of quality. Rubrics are not simply checklists with point distributions or lists of requirements. Includes characterisitcs of well designed rubrics.
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• State Report Card 2006 Illinois
  Illinois State Report Card reported in Education Week A Special State-Focused Supplement
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• The Language Assessment Conundrum: What Tests Claim to Assess and What Teachers Need to Know
  By Dr. Natalie Kuhlman, ELL Outlook™ Contributing Writer ELLs are always taking English language proficiency tests, but what do these tests really mean? How should they affect what happens in the classroom? The author discusses the most common ESL tests used for the past 20 years as well as the NCLB mandates.
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• The Lexile Framework for Reading
  The Lexile Framework for Reading is an innovative approach to reading comprehension that can be used by educators, parents and readers of all ages. Lexiles take the guesswourk out of selecting targeted books and articles that can help to improve reading skils by matching reader to appropriate texts. Site submitted by Lori Wyatt
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• The Lexile Framework for Reading
  Lexile Framework- Lexile Framework for Reading is an innovative approach to reading comprehension that can be used by educators, parents and readers of all ages. Lexile Framework for Reading helps to improve reading skills by matching readers to appropriate text levels. Site submitted by Lori Wyatt
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• Title III (NCLB)
  Federal Funds for Serving English Language Learners and Immigrant Students ISBE Memo on AMAO's and related PowerPoint
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• Understanding by Design: Multiple Methods of Assessment
  This site provides an overview of UBD backward planning which focuses first on the end product. It includes a kindergarten example of GRASPS.
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• Use of Technolgoy Tools for Large Scale Science Assessment:
  Implications for Assessment Practice and Policy at the State Level Guellmalz & Hartel from the Center for Tech. in Ed. SRI International discuss the lack of alignment between current educational goals and standardized tests. They suggest using technology tools to assess standards for critical thinking and understandings that are not readily assessed through pencil and paper tests.
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• Using Performance-Based Assessment in the ELD Classroom
  By Dr. Natalie A. Kuhlman, ELL Outlook™ Contributing Writer This article focues on performance-based assessment, what it is and isn't, some examples of performance activities and how to observe and record them, and how performance-based assessment can help educators and publishers to better understand and educate our English Language Learners (ELLs).
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• Using Portfolios With English Language Learners
  By Dr. Natalie A. Kuhlman, ELL Outlook™ Contributing Writer This article focuses on why portfolios are useful for ELLs, and how to plan, organize, and use them.
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• WestEd: English Language Development Student Report Card
  The English Language Development Student Report (ELD Student Report) Card is a standards-based supplement to a regular report card for English learners. The ELD Student Report is intended to be used in conjunction with WestEd’s Map of Standards for English Learners. There are report forms for grade spans K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
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• When an ELL Has Difficulty Learning, Is the Problem a Disability or the Second-Language Acquisition Process?
  By Suzanne Irujo, ELL Outlook™ Contributing Writer A personal experience with a third-grade ELL shows how difficult differentiating between lack of English language proficiency and a learning disability can be.
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• WIDA: ACCESS for ELLs®
  NEW ACCESS for ELLs® Sample Items! (12/18/08) WIDA is pleased to release a new set of ACCESS for ELLs® sample test items for grades 1-12. For the first time, sample items are now available to the general public to foster awareness of how this English language proficiency assessment operates.
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• WIDA: CAN DO Descriptors
  In fall of 2008, WIDA released the following documents to provide grade level cluster-specific versions of our CAN DO Descriptors. The Descriptors are commonly used by ESL teachers in coaching general education teachers in the first steps of learning to differentiate instruction for English language learners.
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