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Assessment Resources for Literacy Leadership

This page is designed to assist leaders in providing professional development and guiding teachers with the implementation of state assessments.  Grade level specific information can be found on Writing tabs of each grade level.

IAR: Same Standards, Same Content, Improved Administration

​IL Assessment for Readiness (IAR) Resources

• Manuals
  • Test Coordinator Manual
  • Test Administrator Manual for Computer Based Administration 
  • Test Administrator Manual for Paper Based Administration
• ​Task Models: Clustered standards used to design prompts on IAR and are intended to be at the heart of classroom task design.
  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 6-8
  • Grades 9-11
• Text Analysis Worksheets and Task Development Guidelines: These resources are used to guide classroom text selection while planning curriculum
  • Guidance Document for Passage Selection
  • Informational Text Analysis Worksheet 
  • Literary Text Analysis Worksheet 
• Essay Scoring Rubrics (PCR)
  • Grade 3
  • Grade 4-5
  • Grades 6-11
• Evidence Statements:  These provide leaders with the evidence in which students will be assessed.

​SAT Professional Development Resources
Teacher Implementation Guide: These guides were created to help teachers and curriculum specialists: 

• Generate ideas about integrating SAT practice and skill development into challenging course work.
• Interpret student scores, monitor progress, and make connections between scores, curriculum, and instruction.

Training Modules (Modules 4 & 5 are for Math - Modules 7 & 8 are Content Areas: Social Science and Science)​

• Module One: Key Changes (Overview)
                 --Facilitator's Guide
                 --PowerPoint
                 --Webinar 
• Module Two: Words in Context and Command of Evidence

                         --Facilitator's Guide
                         --PowerPoint
                         --Webinar

• Module Three: Expression of Ideas and Standard English Conventions

​                         --Facilitator's Guide
                         --PowerPoint
                         --Webinar

• Module Six: Using Scores and Reporting to Inform Instruction 

​                         --Facilitator's Guide
                         --PowerPoint
                         --Webinar
​​SAT Overview and Practice Tests

• Eleventh Grade Summative Assessment Overview

​                 Module One: Key Changes (Overview)
                       Facilitator's Guide
                       PowerPoint
                       Webinar 

• SAT Understanding Scoring for ELA
• SAT Scoring Structure
• Practice Tests: Full length tests are available by scrolling to Resources section

​SAT Sample Items

• Daily Practice Examples
• Practice with Khan Academy