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LAS Links: Supporting Language Skills by Items

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Information

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Your DRC LAS Links Consultants:

Chelsea Rivera, M. Ed.

Assessment Solutions Consultant

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Michele Piskol, M.Ed.

Language Solution Consultant

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LAS Links Technical Support:

866-282-2250 Option 2

(8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. CST)

Email: laslinkshelpdesk@datarecognitioncorp.com

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Support Links

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Digital Library

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Log in to DRC INSIGHT >> LAS Links Homepage

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Purpose and Overview for Training

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Purpose

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A focus on: LAS Links Item Rosters and Item Maps

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How will my students access the content in lessons?

  • Build background knowledge
  • Leverage prior experiences
  • Leverage visuals: pictures, images, maps, organizers, virtual/in-person trips
  • Support academic vocabulary building
  • Open-ended questions + sentence frames to support peer talk

Identify:

  • Domains – strands – subskills to focus instruction
  • How to group students to target instruction
  • Resources to support targeted growth

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LAS Links Interactive Reporting

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  • Student Proficiency Reports (individual student PDF reports) are available shortly after test completion, allowing for just-in-time data for just-in-time instruction for each student.

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  • LAS Links Interactive Reporting provides additional robust reports used to monitor student progress over time, provide key data for instruction purposes as well as data to monitor program efficacy.

Report samples are available at: https://laslinks.com/PDFs/LAS_Links_Interactive_Reports_Samples.pdf

Student Reports

Roster Reports

Summary Reports

  • Student Proficiency Report
  • Student Dashboard Report
  • Home Report
  • Reading Links/Lexile Report
  • Student Roster
  • Longitudinal Roster
  • Reading Links/Lexile Roster
  • Item Roster
  • Summary of Skill Areas
  • Summary of Strands
  • Cohort Comparison
  • Matched Comparison
  • Item Summary

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Understand the Data: Speaking Rubrics

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Blueprint for Speaking

Strand

Sub-Skill

K-1 # of Items

2-3 # of Items

4-5 # of Items

6-8 # of Items

9-12 # of Items

Social, Intercultural & Instructional Communication

Make Conversation

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Describe and Request Information

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Tell a Story

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Language Arts/Social Studies/History

Use Academic Words

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Present and Explain Information

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Math/Science Technical Subjects

Use Academic Words

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Present and Explain Information

4 (2 for K)

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Speaking Rubrics

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LAS Links Speaking Rubrics

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List - Group – Cluster

(p. 21 of the LAS Links Instructional Strategies)

What: Three-step process to help students organize vocabulary.

Purpose: Stresses relationships between words and requires critical thinking to recognize these relationships.

Materials: Speaking Rubrics (p.9)

Activity: Write/Post key words from the Speaking 3-point rubric into:

https://www.menti.com/al7448yhxnok

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LAS Links Speaking Rubrics

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List - Group – Cluster

(p. 21 of the LAS Links Instructional Strategies)

What: Three-step process to help students organize vocabulary.

Purpose: Stresses relationships between words and requires critical thinking to recognize these relationships.

Materials: Speaking Rubrics (p.9)

Activity: Write/Post key words from the Speaking 3-point rubric into:

https://www.menti.com/al7448yhxnok

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Speaking Rubrics

In the chat, enter your response to:

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How might these rubrics be used to prepare for this Winter’s WIDA ACCESS testing?

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Item Roster Report Practice

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LAS Links and MTSS: Multi-Tiered System of Supports Inclusive of All Students

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Interactive Reports – Item Roster

Click on MY APPLICATIONS >> Interactive Reports >> Student Results

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Interactive Reports – Item Roster

Click on MY APPLICATIONS >> Interactive Reports >> Student Results >> Item Roster >> Enter Filters

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Allows you to analyze student performance on each item

Item Roster Report

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Activity A

Using this Worksheet:

  1. Log in to DRC INSIGHT
  2. Run the Item Roster Report from the first Fall 2023 test event
  3. Identify for Speaking:
  4. Which strand lost the most points (Social/Intercultural/Instructional; Language Arts/Social Studies/History; or Math/Science/Technical Subjects)?
  5. Which item #(s) lost the most points?
  6. Who can you group together?

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Interactive Reports – LAS Links Second Edition Item Maps

Click on MY APPLICATIONS >> Interactive Reports >> Quick Links > LAS Links Second Edition Item Maps > Select for Form C and the grade band

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Allows you to link each LAS Links item to the standard and objective measured.

Linking to the LAS Links Item Maps (standards)�

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Activity B

Using this Worksheet:

  1. Open the Item Map
  2. Identify the sub-skill of focus for the items selected in Activity A
  3. Jot down Instructional Strategies/resources that can be used to support language acquisition

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LAS Links Instructional Strategies

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Thank you!��Q/A �

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For more information, please visit www.LASLinks.com