Cold-Read Assessment Task: Students are asked to read a text or texts independently and answer a series of multiple-choice and constructed-response questions. While the text(s) relate to the unit focus, the text(s) have been taught during the unit. Texts may also be multimedia texts, e.g., videos, interactive graphics, etc. The cold-read assessments offer a range of text types (fiction, nonfiction, and multimedia) and complexity (readily accessible, moderately complex, very complex) throughout the unit, but teachers and districts may choose to offer additional opportunities for student practice with new texts during small-group instructional time, tutoring, remediation, etc. to monitor student progress toward end-of-year goals. Additional resources, including EAGLE, PARCC sample items, and other sites, are available for teachers in the .12 With both sets of assessments (with known texts and with new texts), teachers may choose to omit, add, or adjust tasks.
Cold-Read Assessment Task: Students are asked to read a text or texts independently and answer a series of multiple-choice and constructed-response questions. While the text(s) relate to the unit focus, the text(s) have been taught during the unit. Texts may also be multimedia texts, e.g., videos, interactive graphics, etc. The cold-read assessments offer a range of text types (fiction, nonfiction, and multimedia) and complexity (readily accessible, moderately complex, very complex) throughout the unit, but teachers and districts may choose to offer additional opportunities for student practice with new texts during small-group instructional time, tutoring, remediation, etc. to monitor student progress toward end-of-year goals. Additional resources, including EAGLE, PARCC sample items, and other sites, are available for teachers in the .12 With both sets of assessments (with known texts and with new texts), teachers may choose to omit, add, or adjust tasks.