1. Florida Standards Assessment Parent Night
Mater Academy Elementary
Mrs. Barreto
January 9, 2019

2. What is the Florida Standards Assessment? ”The FSA”
Florida’s K-12 assessment system measures students’ achievement of Florida’s education standards, which were developed and implemented to ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for success in college, career, and life. Assessment supports instruction and student learning, and test results help Florida’s educational leadership and stakeholders determine whether the goals of the education system are being met..

3. When will my child take the FSA?
*ALL Tests will be Paper-Based
Please see next slide
for dates.
Recommend that students are here ON TIME each test day.
Make up days are available, but students will be testing in an unknown setting, with an unknown proctor.
ELA and MATH Tests are broken up into two sessions each and are TIMED.
Writing Test (4th/5th): Students will receive a prompt and 2-3 reading passages. Students must analyze the prompt, read the passages, take notes, and answer the writing prompt within the 120 minute time frame.

4. 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade
ELA
April 3 & April 4, 2019
(80 minutes each)
WRITING
April 3, 2019
(120 minutes)
MATH
May 6 & May 7, 2019
May 1 and May 2, 2019
SCIENCE
May 8 & May 9, 2019

5. *Please refer to FSA Test Design Summary and Blueprint
FSA Questions Types
English Language Arts
Math
Editing Task Choice
Editing Task
Hot Text
Open Response
Multi-select
Evidence-Based Selected Response (Two Part)
Graphic Response Item Display
Editing Task
Hot Text
Open Response
Multi-select
Graphic Response Item Display
Equation Editor
Matching Item
Table Item
*Please refer to FSA Test Design Summary and Blueprint
for more information

6. FSA Question Examples

7. FSA Question Examples

8. FSA Question Examples

9. FSA Question Examples

10. FSA Question Examples

11. FSA English Language Arts Test Breakdown Grades 3-5
15-25%
Language and Editing
Key Ideas and Details
20-30%
Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas
25-35%
Craft and Structure
*Please refer to FSA ELA Test Design Summary for more information

12. FSA Mathematics Test Breakdown Grade 3
17%
Numbers & Operations- Fractions
35%
Measurement, Data, and Geometry
48%
Operation, Algebraic Thinking, and Numbers in Base Ten
*Please refer to FSA MATH Test Design Summary for more information

13. Florida Standard Assessment Portal

14. What are we doing to help your child prepare for the FSA?
Weekly lab time to complete i-Ready
Differentiated Instruction
Modeling and sharing activities to practice the skills and question types on the test.
FSA-style Homework
FSA-style Assessments
Writing Prompts & Conferencing
-i-Ready is a program that we have been using to help bridge the gap in foundational skills in math and reading
-In class interventions that include: differentiated instruction – small groups and WonderWorks
-Students have a lot of modeling, and sharing activities – such as task cards to practice the skills and tests we have created to familiarize students with question types

15. What can you do at home? i-Ready Read together EVERY night
Visit fsassessment.org to and practice questions
Ask your child questions while and after reading
Make sure your child is using TEXT EVIDENCE
Review multiplication and division
Review your child’s homework
Read with your child EVERY night, at least min. Read different types of books and informational text with your child.
Use the FSA Task cards to ask them questions about what is being read.
Ask your child questions about what he or she is learning in class. Ask your child to find answers to questions in the text of books, newspaper articles, manuals, etc.
Make sure you child is going back into the text to answer reading comprehension questions.
Review the TIMES TABLES and DIVISION TABLES daily. You can practice in the car, at breakfast, at the store.

16. Make sure your child gets enough sleep
What should we do…
The night before the FSA:
Make sure your child gets enough sleep
The morning of the FSA:
Eat a normal breakfast
Talk with your child
Arrive at school on time

17. FSA Tutoring FSA ELA & MATH January 7, 2019- March 21, 2019
Mondays & Wednesdays – 7:15 AM to 8:15 AM
Tuesdays & Thursdays - 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM
*Selected students only (Students were be chosen for tutoring based on the previous year's SAT/FSA scores and/or iReady AP2 scores)
*5th Grade Science- Forthcoming
MANDATORY

18. iReady
Students must be completing 45 minutes of Reading and 45 minutes of Math WEEKLY
Students will be graded on completion
* I-Ready Lab will be available to all students on Fridays from 7:15AM-8:00AM starting on January 11th

19. Other Alternatives?
Portfolio- Cold Read passages administered weekly starting January 22nd.
Summer School
Retest in summer school

20. Visit our class website for additional information and resources