1. Best Practices Using Utah Compose
Tooele Techtober
October 6, 2017
Kim Rathke
Best Practices Using Utah Compose

2. Teaching writing is difficult!

3. Learning Intentions Learn
Learn Utah Compose features that will assist you and your students
Learn how to empower your students to revise and edit their writing
Learn how to use Utah Compose as an instructional tool
Learning Intentions

4. The Utah Core Standards for Student Literacy
They demonstrate independence.
They build strong content knowledge.
They respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.
They comprehend as well as critique.
They value evidence.
They use technology and digital media strategically and capably.
They come to understand other perspectives and cultures.
The Utah Core Standards for Student Literacy

5. Utah Compose

6. Using Automated Essay Scoring
Film Cameras
Digital Cameras

7. Formative Feedback Loop for Close Writing
P. Bourque, 2016, p. 210

8. Utah Compose as Formative Tool
Empower
Empower students to learn how to revise and edit their writing with highlighting
Track
Track their progress to learn incremental process of writing
Read
Read aloud edits are essential
Complete
Complete three teacher drafts per prompt. Use student writing to guide learning goals.
Use
Teach digital and analog notetaking strategies
Review
Review student writing data to determine instructional goals

9. Review student writing data to determine instructional goals
Use SAGE Individual Student Reports
SAGE Benchmarks—New scoring engine shows condition codes
Utah Compose Student Portfolios
Have students review their writing from previous years
Help students create their own writing goals
Develop student-friendly methods of tracking progress

10. Teach digital and analog notetaking strategies
Highlighting isn’t annotating!
Teach students to create graphic organizers from blank paper
Model effective notetaking
Use a variety of digital and analog texts

11. Your Turn What Do Clouds Tell Us About Weather?
Analog Text
Digitall Text
What Do Clouds Tell Us About Weather?
Please read and annotate the text provided.
Find textual evidence you would include in an informational essay.
Be prepared to share your results.
Types of Clouds
Please divide your paper into four squares.
Label Square 1: Surprising; Square 2: Confusing; Square 3: Key Details; Square 4: summary
Watch the recording and take notes on evidence that supports your notes from the analog text.
Be prepared to share your results.

12. Design engaging and meaningful tasks that allow for choice
Complete three teacher drafts per prompt. Use student writing to guide learning goals.
Design engaging and meaningful tasks that allow for choice
Review curriculum connections and select Utah Compose prompts that match instructional goals
Use the example essays in Utah Compose to familiarize students with writing tasks
January 19, 2012

13. Utah Compose Example Essays
Every grade level has multiple examples at different scoring levels.

14. Utah Compose Example Essays
Provides annotations to guide instruction.
Students can review, compare, contrast their own writing to the examples.

15. Read aloud edits are essential
Students need to “hear” their writing.
Use the “Personal Whisper Phone” technique

16. Students need to track their progress to learn incremental process of writing

17. Empower students to learn revision and editing with highlighting
One key to using Utah Compose as a formative writing tool is student revision and editing through Guided Highlighting
Materials needed: highlighters in multiple colors
Green: Think “Go!”—first words in sentences; claim/thesis; topic sentences; introductions/hooks
Yellow: Think “Slow Down!”—reasons
Pink: Think “Stop!”—demonstrated student thinking— examples/evidence/elaboration
Blue: Transitions—allows students to see connections between ideas/paragraphs
Purple: Citations—Use to highlight titles/author names/internal citations
Orange: Teacher choice—Use for writing pet peeves or to indicate application of explicit writing instruction

18. August 2017 Enhancements
Print entire class of student responses with scores 1
Scoring will show decimal points with no rounding 2
Performance reports will show scores for first drafts, last drafts, or both by filtering. 3
Performance reports will show student growth between first draft(s) and last drafts 4

19. Enrollment Procedure
Teachers who have never logged onto Utah Compose will need to fill out a registration page. When a teacher logs on, they will click on Teacher Sign-up on the Sign In page.
Teachers must have a CACTUS ID and their Social Security number to register. Your name must match your CACTUS ID exactly—no nicknames allowed.
When teachers fill out this information, they will be able to create their own username and password to log onto Utah Compose. It is recommended to use T+CACTUS ID as your username. For example, T12345. 
Teachers who have already logged onto Utah Compose and used their accounts will be able to log on with the same credentials used in
Teachers who don’t remember their password have the option to click on the Forgot your password?  link located on the Sign In page.
Please contact Utah Compose Support for any inquiries:
(866)

20. New Teacher Sign-up Page
CACTUS ID
First and Last name must match CACTUS ID records exactly
Multiply your SSN by itself.
Ignore zeroes.
Do not use commas

21. Utah Compose Student Log-in
Student accounts are populated through your SIS system and UTREx
Students log in with their SSID number as username & password
Students will select a new password after first login

22. Teacher Resources
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23. Teacher Resources

24. Teacher Resources

25. Students Tab: Differentiation with Utah Compose
Access differentiation feature from “Students” tab

26. Students Tab: Differentiation with Utah Compose
Select a student

27. Select the Edit tab. The screen will change to…

28. Use this drop down menu to change the grade band for differentiated scoring
Student password reset

29. Preventing Writer’s Block from Extreme Writing
“If students write 20 minutes a day for 10 days in a row, at least 8 times a year from fourth through ninth grade, they will write an additional 9,600 minutes (160 hours).”
Diana Cruchley, Extreme Writing

30. Please complete session evaluation
CODE:
1035 Not a Work Session
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