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CCSD59 Individual Study Plan for Assessment Retake or Project Redo

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2024-2025 Junior High ELA-Year at a Glance

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6th Grade EoU 4 Reading Assessment- schema building

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How to Hide/Unhide i-Ready Diagnostic Assessment

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{6} Unit 2: Evidence Collection Document

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StudySync Screencast for SFQs & Video Transcripts

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Writing Unit Preview Institute Day 10.16.23

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{6th Reading} Jr. High ELA Unit 2 Preview - 10.16.23

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Deleting a StudySync Test for ALL students

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*Grade 6- Argument/Literary Analysis Writing Rubric

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Possible Narrative Writing Planning Calendar 2023

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{6} Planning Calendar: Narrative Writing

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Scoring & Scaling Guidance - Slides 9/23

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i-Ready Central Resources | View Resource

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On i-Ready Central you'll find everything you need to be successful with i-Ready, from videos to tips and planning tools.

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Sample Lesson for Data Chats (Santini & Alma 9/23)

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i-Ready Student Data Chat Lesson 2023- Grove

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Vocabulary Ideas & Templates - WORKING DRAFT

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Grove's 6th grade team has created a practice EoU assessment using the question formats students will meet. This one has the students using The Good Samaritan

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Gr. 6 EoU 1 Reading Assessment (2024-2025) Standards Tagged.pdf

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How to Automatically Differentiate Your Assignments

Did you know when you assign a proficiency level to your students, they automatically receive targeted scaffolds on assignments with no additional work for you? StudySync allows you to set levels for students once and then have them receive targeted supports for their assignments with no additional action required when creating assignments. With many levels to choose from for both English Learners and English-only students, you can save time and still provide students the support they need to succeed. I've broken it down into 3 easy steps: assign a level, assign a language, and preview the modification.

1: ASSIGN PROFICIENCY LEVELS
English Learner Support
Each lesson in StudySync's ELA units includes scaffolded support for multiple levels of English language learners. These levels provide supports such as speaking and sentence frames, visual glossaries, and guided notes for videos within StudySync assignments.
Three Reading Levels
There are also 3 levels you can choose to assign to students based on their reading ability: Approaching for below grade-level readers, None for at level readers, and a Beyond option for advanced readers.

Head to the Users tab in your StudySync account. Go to the "Students" menu and you'll see a list of all students who are rostered to you.

In the column labeled Proficiency, click on the dropdown menu in the row for any individual student to select the desired level. Pro Tip: You can click the top of the First Name or Last Name columns in order to alphabetize by either and find students quicker. You can also use the search feature in order to find one particular student
Not sure which level to choose?
For classes with a wide range of reading abilities in their classes, that Beyond level is a terrific way to have Blast background articles assigned at multiple Lexile levels. Students set at Beyond will automatically get Blasts at the highest Lexile, while students set at the Approaching or any of the English Learner levels will receive that Background article at the lowest of the three Lexiles by default. And if you subsequently want all students in a group to receive the Blast article at the same Lexile, you can always still customize an assignment and select one of the three levels for that Blast.

Still trying to wrap your head around which support level is most appropriate for a given student? Here are some tips:

The Beginning English learner proficiency level (or the Emerging level in California) provides the greatest amount of additional support for a given assignment, the Approaching level provides the smallest amount of additional support for an assignment.

For more precise guidance on how to select a proficiency level, take a look at this document that shows how to use the new StudySync Gradebook Color View as a means to identify what support level is most fitting for each student.

Remember: Advanced simply means an English Learner who has been significantly advancing in their progression towards becoming a fluent grade-level English reader and speaker. It is not the same as Beyond!

2. CHOOSE A SUPPLEMENTAL LANGUAGE

The next column following Proficiency in that same "Students" roster list says Sup. Language, for the Supplemental Language options. Click on that dropdown menu in the row for any individual student and choose from Spanish, Mandarin, and several other languages.

Selecting that native language will provide that student with one-paragraph summaries of Core texts in the specified language. Those summaries will automatically appear above the assigned Core text in the Read tab of the student's assignment and will often include audio support in the native language to accompany that summary.

If that summary feature sounds like something that would benefit your class as a whole, you also have the option when creating assignments to customize and include a one-paragraph English summary of the reading for the whole class.

Selecting Spanish + Proficiency for Spanish Cognates
One useful and unique feature for Spanish-speaking students is the inclusion of the Spanish cognates of Vocabulary words and definitions to go along with the Visual Glossary scaffold. Students will only receive this if they have both:

1. the Spanish supplemental language option selected, and

2. an EL proficiency level selected.

3. PREVIEW STUDENT MODIFICATIONS

After selecting individual levels for students, you'll likely want to know just what additional features those students will receive for a given assignment. There are two ways to view this:

In Preview

When previewing any assignment that you are creating or has been assigned to students, utilize the dropdown menus at the top of the screen for Proficiency or Sup. Language. Choosing the specific proficiency level and/or supplemental language option will demonstrate for you what scaffolds or language summaries are available for that assignment.

Students who receive scaffolds based on their proficiency level will simply see a Scaffolds tab on the left side of their assignment window.

Note: If students are working offline for an assignment, any of the scaffold activities for a given proficiency level can be printed by clicking the Actions button in the upper-right corner of the Preview screen.
Within Lesson Plans
Each StudySync Lesson Plan provides guidance for you to know the precise point in an individual lesson where students can utilize these additional features. While the left column of lesson plans provides prompts, activities, and instructional strategies for grade-level readers, the right column showcases differentiation strategies for students below or beyond grade level.

Whether you're viewing a lesson plan in the print Teacher's Edition, via its online PDF, or in the Teacher's Edition tab found on your Preview screen, you can find specific instructions on the most useful spot to use each of the additional modifications that will be automatically included for students you have leveled.
Updating Levels
As student abilities progress throughout the year, that Users tab will always be there for you to change a level for students in order to update those supports to meet a student precisely where they're at throughout the course of the school year.

If you have additional questions, reach out to your school's implementation specialist by emailing implementation@studysync.com.

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StudySync's approach to close reading builds confidence, stamina, and access to increasingly complex texts, which helps overall reading. StudySync author Dr. Doug Fisher says:

"Close reading, using text-dependent questions to guide collaborative conversations, can provide students with access to complex texts. Texts that would have been considered out of students' reach in the past can be made accessible when systematic questioning is used to support comprehension. Your reflective questions as teachers fulfill a similar function: this helps students to gain confidence in using complex texts thoughtfully and inspires their teachers to incorporate more complex texts into instruction based on their understanding and appreciation of diverse texts."

In StudySync's core instructional units, close reading consists of three (or more) lessons: the First Read, Skill Lesson(s), and the Close Read. This research-based instructional sequence is tied to the same short, complex text students reread throughout these lessons.

Build a Foundation with the First Read

First Read lessons aim to figure out what the text says. StudySync author, Dr. Shanahan, says, "It is purely an issue of reading comprehension. Thus, if someone is reading a story, they should be able to retell the plot; if someone is reading a science chapter, they should be able to answer questions about the key ideas and details of the text." So, it might not be the case that students understand a text inside-out after a First Read, and that's okay! The goal is to set up a solid foundation.

After students read and discuss the text, they answer Think questions that require students to support their responses with textual evidence. These questions encourage students to analyze the text thoroughly and support their interpretations with evidence.

Practice questions in the Think section for each First Read also help students strengthen their vocabulary through various strategies-including using context clues, identifying Greek and Latin roots and affixes, and using print and digital resources-to determine the possible meanings of two selected vocabulary words.

Prompt Questioning with Skills Lessons

Skill Lessons come next. Embedded media, explicit instruction, and modeling within Skills lessons help students understand how the text works as they reread a portion of the text. Modeled by their teacher, students learn to look for details in the text and ask themselves questions about the text they are reading. Skill Lessons include short, formative assessments to monitor student progress in preparation for their close read.

Guide Purposeful Analysis

The Close Read is where students take their learned skills to analyze the text. During the Close Read of each text, students use Skills Focus Questions to focus their second reading and annotating of the text, allowing them to apply their understanding of the skill or skills they have learned in conjunction with the text. These questions are designed to guide students as they purposefully analyze and apply the author's craft in preparation for their own written and oral projects and responses.

Upon completing the Close Read and Skills Focus Questions, students will demonstrate their understanding by responding to a writing prompt.

Drive Collaborative Conversations and Pre-writing

In the planning of their written responses, students will participate in collaborative discussions and prewriting activities. StudySyncTV, a video feature found in the Core units, allows students to watch and listen as students interact with and respond to the text by using a prompt to guide their discussion. Pre-writing activities, such as filling out graphic organizers and using critical inquiry, will support students in completing the demands of the prompt. After watching StudySyncTV and completing pre-writing activities, students are better prepared to complete the Write prompt.

Access the Lesson Plans

For each lesson in the Close Reading Routine, detailed lesson plans describe learning objectives and are full of recommendations for building background knowledge, formative assessment, and suggestions for scaffolding instruction for English Learners, Approaching grade-level learners, and Beyond grade-level learners.

Access lesson plans within each Close Read in the Teacher Resources section.

Teach Reading and Writing with StudySync's Close Reading Routine

By closely reading texts, students increase their understanding and their interest in a text. The texts that students closely read in their lessons act as a jumping-off point for exploring even more literature pieces. Direct students to novels in StudySync's robust library of texts as a starting point for exploring these interests.

StudySync's practice of close reading is an effective approach to reading, analyzing, and evaluating complex texts. Be sure to explore StudySync's Core instructional sequence, including First Reads, Skill Lessons, Close Reads, and Lesson Plans in your classroom.

Stay tuned as we continue our Science of Reading series next month, focusing on Vocabulary found in the Core Units and Library.

If you have any questions, please reach out to implementation@studysync.com.

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Reading and Writing in the Close Reading Routine

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StudySync's approach to close reading builds confidence, stamina, and access to increasingly complex texts, which helps overall reading. Learn more about reading and writing in the close reading routine below.

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6th Gr. EOU Reading Success Criteria - Working Draft

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