Region 9 English Language Arts

ONE BOOK,

ONE PEN,

ONE CHILD,

& ONE TEACHER

CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.

-MALALA YOUSAFZAI

1. DISTINCTION of "SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE-READING"

• Slides 36-40

• These items have been formerly "Short Constructed Response," but now have the distinction of "reading".

• Point Value= Continuing to be awarded up to TWO points for correct responses.

2. ADDITION of "SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE-WRITING"

• Slides 41-45

• This is an addition with the update to the PDF.

• The WRITING SCR will test students' ability to revise and edit.

• Point Value= ONE point.

3. INCLUSION of "Inline Choice-WRITING"

• Slides 46-49

• This New Item Type appeared in some TEA slides, but was missing from the ELAR Sampler and from the "Accompanying Guide to New Question Type Samplers: Reading Language Arts (RLA)".

• This writing question type is testing students' ability to revise and edit.

• Point Value= ONE point.

4. ADDITION of SCR-WRITING and INLINE CHOICE-WRITING questions on the SAMPLER.

This free program helps students become close readers and interpreters of poetry. They master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. High school students choose poems from the online anthology, memorize them, and perform them in competition. At the state level, the winner and runner up receive cash awards and their school libraries receive money to help them buy poetry books. State winners compete in the national competition for a pool of $50,000 in scholarships for students and cash awards for schools. We’d love to see one of your students as the winner next year, but we also see rich benefits for students who simply participate in this program.

You can conduct the program with as few as two students entering into the school/organization competition portion of the program. You may conduct the program virtually or in person. Details are at https://www.poetryoutloud.org/teachers-organizers/organize-a-contest/.

We ask that you report your school’s winner to us by December 15, 2022. We expect to hold the state finals in Austin in late February 2023. The national finals will be conducted in Washington, DC, May 8-10, 2023. Lesson plans, organizer tools, and guidelines are online at https://www.poetryoutloud.org/teachers-organizers/ to help you get started. And best of all, the rich, wide-ranging anthology of poems is at https://www.poetryoutloud.org/search/?type=poem and will be finalized by September 1.

Please let us know if you’re interested in participating in the program this year by sending an e-mail to poetryoutloud@arts.texas.gov that provides your full name, school name, and mailing address and we’ll follow up as we have updates and materials (promotional posters and calendars for your classroom) to send out. We’d also welcome your help in getting out the word about this great, free program, so please forward this e-mail to your colleagues at other high schools (or organizations serving high school students) in Texas who might be interested in the program. We really hope your school will join us this year.

If you have any questions about conducting the program at your school or organization, please let us know!

Sincerely,

Matrex Kilgore and Anina Moore, Texas Poetry Out Loud coordinators

Texas Commission on the Arts

Texas Education Code (TEC,) §28.006(c-1) requires each school district to administer, at the beginning of 7th grade, a reading instrument adopted by the commissioner to each student whose performance on the grade 6 STAAR reading assessment did not demonstrate reading proficiency. For more information, click on the link below.

A filtering site for books and movies in which teachers can use filter parameters to meet the needs of your school community when making educated/informed decisions regarding appropriateness of book/movie selections used in the classroom/educational setting.

School librarians have school's login information.

Secondary English Language Arts Reading Specialist

Region 9 ESC

Email: becky.hanna@esc9.net
Website: esc9.net
Location: 301 Texas 11 Loop, Wichita Falls, TX, USA
Phone: 940.322.6928