TELPAS Readiness Introduction

This is TELPAS

Multiple Choice

Who takes TELPAS?

• Everyone

• All students who speak Spanish

• Students who are learning English (emergent bilingual students)

• Students who are learning Spanish (dual language students)

Multiple Choice

TELPAS is an assessment of ______ proficiency.

• English

• Spanish

Multiple Select

What 4 domains does TELPAS assess?

• Listening

• Speaking

• Thinking

• Reading

• Writing

Multiple Select

Complete this sentence:

Students take the _____ and  _____  part of the TELPAS one day, and the _____  and _____ part on a different day. 

• Listening, Speaking

• Speaking, Writing

• Listening, Reading

• Reading, Writing

Multiple Select

What are the 4 levels can you score in each domain?

• Advanced High

• Advanced

• Beginning

• Below Basic

• Intermediate

Multiple Choice

Bilingual students stop taking the assessment when -

• they score advanced high in all domains and pass the reading STAAR

• they score advanced in all domains and pass the mathematics STAAR

• they score advanced high in at least one domain and advanced in the rest

• when they pass the reading STAAR

​Everyone should have a copy of their goal graph in front of you. It looks like this:

Now we will look at some example student goal graphs.

​What is this student's COMPOSITE score from 2024?

(COMPOSITE = TOTAL)

Look at this student's goal graph.

Multiple Choice

What is this student's COMPOSITE score from 2024?

• Beginner

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High

​What is a composite score? Be prepared to write you answer on the next slide.

​Turn & Talk:

Open Ended

What is a composite score?

​What is this student's COMPOSITE goal for 2025?

(COMPOSITE = TOTAL)

This student's composite score for 2024 is Advanced.

Multiple Choice

What is this student's COMPOSITE goal for 2025?

• Beginning

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High

​What would this student's COMPOSITE score be for 2024?

(COMPOSITE = TOTAL)

Look at this student's goal graph.

Multiple Choice

What would this student's COMPOSITE score be for 2024?

• Beginning

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High

Why is this student's COMPOSITE score Advanced and not Advanced High?

What is bringing down their score?

This student's COMPOSTE score for 2024 was ADVANCED.

​Turn & Talk:

Multiple Choice

Why is this student's COMPOSITE score Advanced and not Advanced High?

What is bringing down their score?

• Their LISTENING score is bringing down their COMPOSITE score.

• Their SPEAKING score is bringing down their COMPOSITE score.

• Their READING score is bringing down their COMPOSITE score.

• Their WRITING score is bringing down their COMPOSITE score.

What should this student's COMPOSITE goal be for 2025?

This student's SPEAKING score is bringing down their COMPOSITE score.

Multiple Choice

What should this student's COMPOSITE goal be for 2025?

• Beginning

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High

Look at your 2024 COMPOSITE score.
What COMPOSITE score did you earn last year?

Poll

What COMPOSITE score did you earn last year?

• Beginning

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High

• I didn't take the test last year. / This will be my first time taking the TELPAS.

What is your COMPOSITE goal for 2025?

Poll

What is your COMPOSITE goal for 2025?

• Beginning

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High

Look at your scores.
Which domain do you think is the most difficult?

Poll

Which domain do you think is the most difficult?

• Listening

• Speaking

• Reading

• Writing

During this PRIDE session, we will work with an application called SummitK12.

SummitK12 will help you practice for the TELPAS.

Multiple Choice

Select the app that we will work on in PRIDE time:

You will complete listening, speaking, reading, and writing quizzes in Summitk12:

​ After completing a quiz, the app will give you a score of Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, or Advanced High.

Look at your goal graph. You will see a SummitK12 rating key on the bottom right corner:

Turn & Talk:
How many points do you need to earn an Advanced High rating? What color is an Advanced High Rating?

Categorize

Options (8)

Red

1.00 - 1.49 Points

Yellow

1.50 - 2.49 Points

Blue

2.50 - 3.49 Points

Green

3.50 - 4.00 Points

Organize these options into the right categories:

Beginning

Intermediate

Advanced

Advanced High

I (your PRIDE Time teacher) can see your progress in the app.

I will check in with you each day to see if you're meeting your goal.

Look at Gardiner's goal graph. Is Gardiner meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes?

Multiple Choice

Is Gardiner meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes?

• Yes, he is meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes.

• No, he is not meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes.

Look at Joe Kelley's goal graph. Is Joe Kelley meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes?

Multiple Choice

Is Joe Kelley meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes?

• Yes, he is meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes.

• No, he is not meeting his goal on the SummitK12 quizzes.

Each part of this test is designed to take between THREE to FOUR HOURS.

I will be the person giving you the test. It should take you AT LEAST THREE HOURS to complete each part.

Multiple Choice

About how long should each part of this test take?

• at least 3 hours

• between 1-2 hours

• at least 5 hours

• between 2 - 3 hours

Complete your goal graph and begin working on the listening and reading quizzes in SummitK12.
Good luck!