Welcome to My SBAC Coach!
Created by the team at Get Ahead Writing, My SBAC Coach is an on-line practice platform for students to use in order to help prepare them for the writing types and tasks that they will see on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium test. Each task is created to meet a specific learning target and task type.
More than 20,000 site users and 500,000+ page views since our launch in January 2016! Find out why!
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Here is what teachers have to say so far:
Thank you to the amazing people behind mySBACcoach.com. This November prompt was awesome. Our students loved it, and they wanted to keep doing it the next day! I know they will appreciate this very much! Thank you again and keep a look out for us next month because we will keep on submitting entries!
My students feel much better prepared for the performance tasks and extended writing items!
Anything that helps our students practice for that test, we will do! It helps them so much using this combined with the iPads. 🙂
I provide intervention to our EL students. At this time I am working with 6th graders who need help in reading and writing. I think this could help me especially with the videos…Something they can see if they don’t know. Thanks.
Thank you for this program. Looking forward to great progress!
Features:
- Highly engaging tasks in short text, brief write, and full write formats
- Monthly recommended tasks for each grade level
- Tasks can be sorted by grade level, learning target, or task type
- Videos and pictures (for the informational text tasks) to help with reading comprehension
- Informational and literary text passages as the basis for the tasks
- Customizable “homepage” each student
- Task specific rubrics accessible to students as they write
- Ability for students to see their previous submission while revising it
- Individual student “filing cabinet” of all the writing that is produced for as long as the student is a My SBAC Coach user
- Students’ writing drops directly into the “filing cabinet” on the teacher’s page
- Ability for the team at My SBAC Coach to give feedback to teachers on their own page
Benefits:
- Teachers, administrators, and district personnel can actually SEE what their students will produce when presented with a task that they will likely see on the SBAC, and the instruction can be adjusted accordingly.
- Teachers can select an unlimited number of tasks for the class (from the bank of tasks) to offer additional opportunities or different opportunities depending on the needs of the class.
- Teachers have easy access to high-interest texts aligned to critical learning targets with the practice built right into the task. No need to search for appropriate text and make up a task. They are already ready to go!
- While working on the writing tasks, students are also working on the learning targets for reading and research. One task addresses several learning targets!
- My SBAC Coach fits right in with any existing Language Arts curriculum. This is not writing program specific. Any student who takes the SBAC will benefit from using My SBAC Coach!