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Review Week for reading when coming back for 2nd semester in January

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Math - We need to spend more time on telling time to the minute and elapsed time.

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Math - Is there a different way to label the math tests in Mastery Connect?  I cannot find the next test in time to send it to be copied.

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We gave Benchmark Assessments the week leading up to Christmas break. The kids are not nearly as focused for what they perceive as additional random testing. As a grade level, we discussed wishing we could have given the Benchmark assessments the week before. This could have been done by adding in two I/E days after the U3W2 test. This would have pushed the U3W3 test by two days. We would have finished up that assessment and still had a few days of PBL. While yes the kids would still have assessments the week leading up to Christmas break, it would have provided a little more structure and helped us stress the importance of trying their best on the Benchmark assessments. Otherwise, the pacing guide looks good.

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We gave Benchmark Assessments the week leading up to Christmas break. The kids are not nearly as focused for what they perceive as additional random testing. As a grade level, we discussed wishing we could have given the Benchmark assessments the week before. This could have been done by adding in two I/E days after the U3W2 test. This would have pushed the U3W3 test by two days. We would have finished up that assessment and still had a few days of PBL. While yes the kids would still have assessments the week leading up to Christmas break, it would have provided a little more structure and helped us stress the importance of trying their best on the Benchmark assessments. Otherwise, the pacing guide looks good.

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Unit 4  Inv 1 multiplication test and workbook don't line up all the way. Meaning 3digit x 4digit instead of 2digit x 4digit. 

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Unit 4  Inv 1 multiplication test and workbook don't line up all the way. Meaning 3digit x 4digit instead of 2digit x 4digit. 

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-Carlisle

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We could do some sort of phonological awareness progression (like Heggerty, for example) before starting Unit 1.

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We like the combined day 4 & 5 with an assessment day each week!

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No tests on Mondays. Schedule days for assessments such as STAR, Beacon, Daze/MAZE, and benchmarks. Testing is increasing to the point that students are stressed. Lower performing students "just click." It frequently takes students more than one day to complete the weekly Wonders test, also. I find that students know the skill/standard, but the wording on the weekly assessments is not plain enough for them to realize what is being asked. It would be more beneficial to teach Wonders in sequence because they get tested on skills they have not seen yet when it is done out of order. A writing/research/technology day would be great to add in sometimes.

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Tweak rubric for main idea and detail- add in neatness/grammar/creativity

Change a few articles on the pallet for the project

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1. We need to be sure to cover capitalization errors in a way similar to achievement.

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PLEASE let Rubio look at our pacing guide and help embed lessons together so we have more time to spend on standards. She's been working on Lee County's for 3 years.

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We spent a LONG time on addition. In order to spend more time on standards we need to embed some standards together.
We should teach Area with multiplication and perimeter with addition then come back and review during Perimeter/Area lessons.

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PCS is given 15 days to complete fractions. Lee County's pacing guide with investigations is given 43 days to complete fractions. We definitely need more time on Fractions because we've added lessons (per Rubio) and fraction lessons take longer than 1 day. You can't do a lesson a day with fractions.

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We fixed our pacing guide for more instructional days but then added the benchmark assessment? In the month of October I've given Star Math, Star Reading, Benchmark Reading, Benchmark Math, Beacon Reading and Math, all while teaching standards and teaching the online tools for end of year testing.

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Loving the sharing

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It is extremely hard to teach Wonders to fidelity.  Jumping around enables students and teachers to fully implement the Wonders program as it is intended to be used.  Students are now tested on skills that were not taught in previous weeks, because of the skipping of weeks and units.   

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It is extremely hard to teach Wonders to fidelity.  Jumping around enables students and teachers to fully implement the Wonders program as it is intended to be used.  Students are now tested on skills that were not taught in previous weeks, because of the skipping of weeks and units.   

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It is extremely difficult to locate the test(s) on Mastery Connect and for the allowance of a reasonable turn around time to make the copies. Yes, the students are over tested with DIBELS, Wonders, STAR, practice Scantron, but this is not the answer.

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The answer keys are on some of the tests...Hard to take tests online. Also they are included with printed tests.

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Extra day for assessments on the Reading pacing guide and an additional week for pre-assessments in Reading like shown on the Math pacing guide.

We also like the letter a day idea!

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-The formatting on the reading and math assessment were not set up for first grade. The test was VERY close together. It needs to be spaced out between each question/answer set even if it requires using more paper to copy each test.
-Some of the numbers and answer choices (A, B, C, D, etc) were not formatted neatly so you could not easily tell what went with each choice/question.
-Many of the images were difficult to recognize (ex: finding the tiny rectangle in the image on the math test - it was difficult to tell what some of the clip art images were)
-We should be able to use Wonders reading unit tests and unit tests for Investigations math as our summative assessment vs using this benchmark assessment and adding on yet another test
-Consistently testing first graders is not developmentally appropriate - we could be using this extra time to teach our students how to read. The test did not seem beneficial to help us develop our instruction going forward. We are aware of students strengths and areas of growth needed.
-Seemed thrown together quickly.
-The questions are not written very well for an assessment.
-This seems very repetitive with assessments we are already giving. For example: if a student couldn’t identify the word sit on the wonders test, spell it on the spelling test, or read it during guided reading, we know - we have seen the success/work needed for each student. We are progress monitoring and know our students!!
-Given to teachers very last minute. It would have been nice to have this to look over before vs receiving it the Friday afternoon before we administer it Monday morning.

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Mastery Connect: What's Working? What's not?

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Mastery Connect: What's Working? What's not?

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-It would be awesome if MC would take the graded percentage and enter it into the grade book automatically. Is that possible?
-I like how it easily groups students (red/yellow/green by standard) - are there any special tools to sort these groups in an easy to read way?
-Some assessment items are hard to find/search for to add to our trackers unless you look through the people you follow and what they add
-It is time consuming to enter each individual question answer choice. It would be nice for students that got 100% all correct for us to have a button to just click and not have to enter individual answers when they got all items right

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-The pacing guide & gradual release documents are easy to use with how assessments are graded.
-The reading gradual release document does not seem developmentally appropriate for how many students are reading below grade level. For example, unit 2 week 1 wonders students had to read the text by themselves. A handful of students were ready for this while it sent a large amount of students into frustration, a sense of failure, and a loss of interest in reading. It would be nice if we could gradually release students as they are ready - maybe this would look like testing in small guided reading groups to individualize instruction a little more for each learner.

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I Can Statements Addition to Pacing Guides

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I Can Statements Addition to Pacing Guides

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Could I can statements be added to calendar so they are found easily for the day with the standard so we have them all in 1 place to put up each day for each lesson vs having to look back in our lesson plan document.

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Benchmark Assessment Added to Pacing Guide

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Benchmark Assessment Added to Pacing Guide

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The new benchmark assessment days would be a good addition to the pacing guide to ensure it accounts for on these days not being able to hit all the reading and/or math instruction that day(s) and to also ensure students are not being tested multiple times that day or week.

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Moves too quickly. If kids are below grade level the skills are not being mastered. We need more IE days and LESS testing.

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Remove multiplication questions that involved 6,7,8 etc. Yes, we have taught the strategies for solving multiplication problems but students have until the end of third grade to master those facts.

Telling time and rounding questions need to be evaluated. Students need more time to master these skills. Rounding was all over the assessment and from my experience it is a difficult concept for the kids to fully comprehend.

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Would prefer to teach the units in order. Teaching multiplication and division at the beginning took far longer for the students to catch on to which has caused teachers to get behind on the pacing guide.

We need more than two days on telling time review and it needs to be taught with elapsed time. I will teach both of these skills year round but the kids need more than two days to master a skill before a test is administered.

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Can we have a list of all of the assessments that we are expected to put in Mastery Connect at the beginning of the year? This would be especially helpful for new teachers. Additionally, the tests are difficult to find.

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The sequence is confusing. We jump around from unit to unit and some weeks are longer than others which often leads to us not having adequate time to finish teaching what needs to be taught for that unit.

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WONDERS assessments should be given biweekly to give more time for Mastery of the skills being tested on. Administering the test takes an entire reading block away, time which could be used to teach and practice the skills being tested on. For students who are not exposed to, or used to, the vernacular used in the weekly assessments outside of school, teachers not only spend time teaching the skills but how to understand the wording of the questions. Weekly Reading Assessments, especially being taken as a major grade, go against teaching best-practices (Rosenshine, 2012).

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Can there be a practice test to familiarize the students with how to navigate through the test on the computer prior to taking the test?

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Data Overload vs. Curriculum Pacing Guide

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Data Overload vs. Curriculum Pacing Guide

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-Lexia, Dreambox, DIBELS, Mastery Connect, STAR, Benchmark Assessment, ORFs, and weekly tests are all supposed to drive instruction but there is simply too much data in multiple places to look at on a daily basis.
-Overwhelmed with weekly progress monitoring, 40 minutes on Lexia, 40 minutes on Dreambox, Typing Agent requirements, weekly ORFs plus reading and math quizzes/tests, and daily intervention requirements with a different tool/strategy required for Tier II and Tier III students (without having an interventionist for the majority of Tier students) on top of everyday instruction. More is being added to our plates but nothing is being taken off. It is extremely difficult trying to meet all of these requirements while also trying to stay on the pacing guide and meet the needs of ALL students.

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Opinions that it takes additional time to enter in assessments in both Mastery Connect and in the grade book. If we are entering in Mastery Connect why not just have a standards based report card?

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Add in a day on pacing guides for quarterly benchmark assessments. Also, can we change the format of the assessment? (space out the questions more--students were circling answers for the following questions instead of the one they were on).

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Too many assessments to filter through. Can we archive the older assessments and clean it up? Also, the math test titles do not match in Mastery Connect so searching for them is difficult.

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Math test on Mastery Connect are hard to find. 

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Math test on Mastery Connect are hard to find. 

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I feel like we taught reading last year with Wonder's pacing. (going in their order) We saw our students grow tremendously this way. I feel this year we are all over the place and are having to go back to reteach standards that are skipped due to pacing. We seem very unorganized and scattered. Plus the tests are extremely difficult to find on mastery connect. This makes it difficult to find in time to make our copies. I believe the way Wonders created the program to go was researched and planned to be more beneficial for all involved. 

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I feel like we taught reading last year with Wonder's pacing. (going in their order) We saw our students grow tremendously this way. I feel this year we are all over the place and are having to go back to reteach standards that are skipped due to pacing. We seem very unorganized and scattered. Plus the tests are extremely difficult to find on mastery connect. This makes it difficult to find in time to make our copies. I believe the way Wonders created the program to go was researched and planned to be more beneficial for all involved. 

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Please try to keep from combining day 4 with day 5 in addition to R.W. testing we are progress monitoring weekly.

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OGAP number talk training 3-5 math teachers

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Investigations and Wonders training for new teachers and those who have moved grades/subjects.

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Is there any way tests can be shortened? Now that I only have an hour to teach, it's taking multiple days for students to complete tests and...we don't have those days. Thanks!!

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I am giving the Benchmark test, but my classes are not on the pacing guide. This year, my students are struggling so I adhered to the advice of using the pacing guide as a guide, but now, I feel that my students are being punished. They are going to be given an assessment and have it graded when I know they have not covered a portion of the skills. Why can't we use this assessment as a formative one and only have students take it when WE know they are ready? Also, why does it NEED to be a grade?

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Why are we adding more tests if we were given a Pacing Guide that attempted to combine and delete tests? I thought we were getting rid of tests so that we'd have more time to teach and allow students to master skills prior to the standardized test...

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Remember the days when we would all meet as grade levels in math to discuss district tests, share strategies, and all know what's going on and the changes that have been made to pacing, testing, and other pertinent teaching matters? Well, where did those go? I am always lost as to what is going on and what is being expected for Math from the district level. Not having a pacing guide PRIOR to the start of the next nine weeks is extremely taxing and does not give my grade level time to properly plan to create tailored lessons to reach our students as well as master the standards for that quarter...please let's fix this...soon.

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We are told to not worry about the pacing guide, but our benchmark tests are based off of the pacing guide. My class is not on the pacing guide because they came to me so far behind, but I am being required to give them this assessment AND use it as a test grade. I do not agree with this policy. Regardless if the grade is minor or major, it's not fair to our students to be given assessments that they are not ready to complete & this unreadiness is due to them being in need of extra time to master standards from previous grades.

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L. Wilson Reading. I need your opinions. 

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L. Wilson Reading. I need your opinions. 

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Would you like to have the pacing guide:
1. reflect NO combined weeks and test more often
2. reflect combined weeks but allow more days to teach

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Please add extra flex days for star testing, benchmark testing, etc. in the pacing guide.

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There is an item presented on the Benchmark test that was not covered in our pacing guide - Climax. I mentioned it while talking about plot, character, setting, but did not teach it thoroughly.

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There is an item presented on the Benchmark test that was not covered in our pacing guide - Climax. I mentioned it while talking about plot, character, setting, but did not teach it thoroughly.

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It is difficult to cover ALL of the material when we combine 2 weeks into one. I know we get a few extra days during those weeks, but there is not enough time to dive into showing the skill/strategy in action through literature stories.

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It is difficult to cover ALL of the material when we combine 2 weeks into one. I know we get a few extra days during those weeks, but there is not enough time to dive into showing the skill/strategy in action through literature stories.

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I do not understand the reasoning behind deviating away from the Wonders curriculum in the order in which it was designed. I know there was research behind the Wonders curriculum prior to it being released to us years ago so I think it should be followed as it was designed. Our school followed the pacing guide last year and our students made significant gains. Why change what worked?

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I do not understand the reasoning behind deviating away from the Wonders curriculum in the order in which it was designed. I know there was research behind the Wonders curriculum prior to it being released to us years ago so I think it should be followed as it was designed. Our school followed the pacing guide last year and our students made significant gains. Why change what worked?

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Jennifer Oliver

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This is the outline that we used last year and it worked very well!

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Add all extra testing (benchmark, STAR, Beacon, etc) in the pacing guide.

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Time to the nearest minute was on our rounding test as well as the benchmark test but it has not been covered yet in investigations or the pacing guide.

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We need for the reading tests to be loaded to mastery connect sooner so we can make copy requests sooner. The test for Oct 21-25 is still not in MC.

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Quarterly Benchmark questions are not at all similar to the questions on the weekly Wonders assessments.

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The pacing needs to go back to the original way in order to make sure that all students are given time to master the grade level standards since we are testing strictly grade level standards at the end of the year. The students need more days to get a better understanding of the skill and the teachers need more time to expand different use of different strategies in order to differentiate for all students.

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There is not enough time to dive into each standard and skill before it is time to move to the next. 4 days is not enough time to teach vocab, grammar, spelling, comprehension strategy, vocabulary strategy and comprehension skill in 4 days. Even though the comprehension skill stays the same all the others change.

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Additional days on PG to avoid combining Day 4 & 5 so often. 

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Additional days on PG to avoid combining Day 4 & 5 so often. 

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We need additional time for the weeks when we have multiple patterns. Unit 1 Week 3 (l blends) is difficult to teach and so is Unit 1 Week 5 (r & s blends). I feel like I need extra time for the students to master those patterns.

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More time definitely needs to be given for rounding.  Only 2 days was  given on the pacing guide.

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More time definitely needs to be given for rounding. Pacing only has 2 days. -

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I think my students will benefit more from a guide with a 10 day plan for reading.

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The big jumps between the weeks for reading makes it more difficult to teach everything. I have to use small group time to try and teach the skills that have not been covered but are being assessed on the test. 

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The big jumps between the weeks for reading makes it more difficult to teach everything. I have to use small group time to try and teach the skills that have not been covered but are being assessed on the test. 

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We Would like additional days for assessments, and to also be able to do a letter a day before we start Unit 1 in reading.

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We need more time to teach addition and subtraction and less time teaching shapes.

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We need at least two weeks to teach reading units, ESPECIALLY ones where we have to teach MULTIPLE patterns and blends. I also believe when we have short weeks, units need to be extended.

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I would like to have a few more days for Unit 1. I feel like with the first days of school and trying to implement routines that it is difficult to stay on track.

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The titles on the pacing guide are not aligning with the titles in Mastery Connect. In the months of October and November. Seems December picks back up with the quiz #'s.

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Just checking- Was Math Unit 3, 1.5 skipped on purpose? 

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Just checking- Was Math Unit 3, 1.5 skipped on purpose? 

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Could we leave the week after the end of 9 wks open for testing?

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Add 2 days the first week of school for working with text structure.

Take out the Unit 1 assessment-since Benckmarks have now been added.

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The reading tests contain questions from "previously taught lessons"; however, since we skip from Unit 1 to Unit 3, there are skills on the test that haven't been covered (due to skipping). This also affects the flow of the grammar lessons.

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Teachers are having a hard time reading the math pacing calendar. (For example, the calendar specifies teaching windows and testing windows.  Can this be clarified in the next meeting?)

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Common math assessment names in MC need to match the pacing guide.

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This is my first year teaching reading, and I have been very comfortable with the flow of our pacing guide so far. I've had time to dive into the material and allow several days for practice. I will continue to post if I have more feedback to offer.

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There are two days to teach rounding before our major test grade assessment and majority of the test is rounding. We switched it to 5 days of rounding with a project. I’ll email the project if anyone wants it aowens@pcboe.net

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I just added a link to task cards for unit 1 week 5 grammar to the pacing guide. It is using can may must

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Think about putting some time for addition and subtraction BEFORE teaching multi-digit multiplication and division for next year.

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New test need to be created to match the way we are now required to assess. Some of the old test are not aligned to the new pacing guides.

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We have one week for pre-assessment in reading and two weeks in math. Can we get two weeks for reading in the future?

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Thank you for the idea for purchasing a resource with our allocation money to increase phonemic awareness. :)

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It takes longer to assess students in ELA than it does math.

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Please add an addition day to assess students.