Assessing Multilingual Learners' Writing Skills

Multiple Choice

What is/are the benefit(s) of using the Descriptive Review Process for Writing Assessment?

• Gain deeper understanding of the student

• Assist the teacher with meeting student’s needs

• Help teachers study student’s work overtime

• All the above

Multiple Choice

What is something I have learned about myself as a writer? 

What helps me write? 

What does not help me write?

These questions are an example of what type of question students can ask themselves?

• Question of History

• Question of Action

• Question of Process

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

True or False?

It is recommended to assess children’s writing skills in both languages side-by-side.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Read the Spanish writing sample (Kindergarten) and use the quantitative scoring rubric (link in chat).

What score would you give for the content?

• 1. Prewriting: picture only, not readable, or written in language other than the prompt

• 3. One idea expressed through a subject and predicate, subject may be implied

• 4. Two ideas

• 5. Main idea discernable with supporting details

Open Ended

Read the English and Spanish writing samples (1st grade).

Using the quantitative scoring rubric, what Spanish and English scores would you give for structural elements?

Multiple Choice

What is the qualitative scoring level for the sentence below?

"I am going to the park para ver a mi amiga."

• Sentence/Phrase Level

• Discourse Level

• Word and Phonetic Level

• Language Specific Acquisition

Multiple Choice

Which category does this sentence belong to:

¿Will my mom pick me up from school today?

• English ----> Spanish

• English <----> Spanish

• Spanish ----> English

Open Ended

How is it beneficial for teachers to use methods to teach Spanish reading that are authentic to the Spanish language?