Elementary District Writing Assessment Plan:

• 2 Performance Tasks per Year
  • 1^st Task (Fall): The first writing assessment is embedded into the completion of the “Launching Writer’s Workshop” unit for all grade levels. Use as an instructional teaching tool to scaffold students into the writing process. Teach/use Oregon Scoring Guide.
  • 2^nd Task (embedded in DDSD Forward Curriculum Maps – usually found in Part 3 or Part 4): On Demand Independent Writing Assessment. Use for Work Sample (Input scores into Synergy)
    • Note:  The DWA is strictly assessing students’ writing skills (unlike the SBAC that assesses their reading and writing skills simultaneously).  Therefore, reading the articles are encouraged so students can access the text.
• Synergy Tutorial:
  • K-5 District Writing Assessment in Synergy.pdf

• Writing Scoring Guides:
  • K-2 Teacher Version
  • 3-5 Informative Student Language Version                              3-5 Informative Teacher Version
  • 3-5 Narrative Student Language Version                                  3-5 Narrative Teacher Version

Writing Prompts:

Scores Input into Synergy:

Scores for the 2nd Task need to be input no Synergy no later than:

• K-1 by second week of June
• Grade 2 by third week of April
• Grades 3-5 by first week of April