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Petaluma City Schools

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    • Elementary Assessment Resources

      General Resources

      2021-2022 District Assessment Calendar

      Parent Guidelines for Assessment

      Renaissance STAR

      STAR Reading Benchmarks and Cut Scores

      STAR Math Benchmarks and Cut Scores

      STAR Reading Unified Benchmarks and Cut Scores (Provides guidelines using the Unified scale to help categorize student performance between STAR Early Literacy and STAR Reading assessments)

      Renaissance Learn Assessments Reminders

      More Help From the Renaissance Learn Site for Teachers: Administering Star Tests Remotely

      Seesaw introduction for taking Early Star at home
      Created by Maureen Tracy at Penngrove.
      Feel free to share as is or modify in your own words. Just "Save Activity" to your Seesaw account.

      Seesaw introduction for taking STAR assessment
      Created by Maureen Tracy at Penngrove.
      Feel free to share as is or modify in your own words. Just "Save Activity" to your Seesaw account.

      Illuminate Broad Coverage Assessments

      PCS Testing Guidelines
      For use with Illuminate Broad Coverage Assessments

      Illuminate Testing FAQs

      The Illuminate Broad Coverage Playlist
      This is a YouTube collection of videos developed by PCS

      CORE Phonics Survey

      Core Phonics Survey Webinar Recording
      View the training provided to district teachers by Reading Specialist Dana Gottlieb on August 25, 2020.

      Core Phonics Teacher Resource Pages
      Includes when to administer each part for each grade level.

      Core Phonics Reminders
      Before administering, please give these reminders to students, and parents who may be present.

      **CORE Phonics Survey Reminders and Helpful Hints July 2021
      Created by Dana Gottlieb at Penngrove. Thank you Dana!

      Core Phonics Survey Slideshow to use for Assessment
      Created by Renee Nealon at McDowell. Thank you again for this awesome resource, Renee!
      To make a COPY of Renee's slides select "File" > "Make a copy" > "Entire presentation"
      Presentation mode is great to use for administering!

      Core Phonics Teacher's Record Sheet
      Make your own copy of this one, as well. You can print your own or fill them out digitally if you'd prefer.

      Core Phonics Survey Class Score Sheet

      How to conduct one-one assessments via zoom

      1. Have student version open in browser
      2. Share screen so that student can see assessment
      3. Click on "annotate" (If you don't see annotate, go to your zoom settings and enable annotate. Set it to "host only" if you don't want kids annotating)
      4. Click on "spotlight", then click the icon that looks like a flashlight
      5. Use the red spotlight to show kids where to start reading
      6. Record as usual

      If you have any questions or concerns please reach out.

      Technical Resources

      Want to increase your cursor size so students can see it more clearly? Watch these tutorials:
      Increasing cursor size on a Mac
      Another version of the cursor resize

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