Full Text of HR0347 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives recognize the critical importance of reading | 4 | | proficiency for children to prepare for college and careers in | 5 | | the 21st century workplace; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The most important period for development of | 7 | | reading proficiency is kindergarten through grade 2; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois in 2000 authorized and | 9 | | funded the development of a multifaceted, classroom-based | 10 | | literacy assessment that provides data to design meaningful | 11 | | instruction in order to identify students in need of additional | 12 | | attention and to enable all children to meet the Illinois | 13 | | Learning Standards as measured by the Illinois Standards | 14 | | Achievement Test in grade 3; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, This assessment, known as the Illinois Snapshot of | 16 | | Early Literacy (ISEL), was developed collaboratively by | 17 | | Illinois institutions of higher education, classroom teachers, | 18 | | and administrators throughout our State; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, ISEL has been used beneficially to help guide | 20 | | instruction for thousands of Illinois schoolchildren, thus | 21 | | proving its value in literacy development and subsequent |
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| 1 | | advanced reading skills; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, ISEL is owned by the State Board of Education; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, ISEL is research-based, valid and reliable, | 4 | | endorsed by national literacy experts, and aligns closely to | 5 | | the Illinois Learning Standards and Common Core State | 6 | | Standards, which have been adopted by Illinois; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, ISEL is made available by this State to all | 8 | | Illinois schools in paper form free of charge; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, ISEL is complemented by a sophisticated | 10 | | technology platform that was funded by this State, the Chicago | 11 | | Community Trust, and other charitable foundations and was | 12 | | developed by the Center, Resources for Teaching and Learning, | 13 | | an Illinois 501(c)(3) organization that has worked closely with | 14 | | the State Board of Education and other State agencies for the | 15 | | past 40 years; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, ISEL can be administered by school districts at a | 17 | | substantially lower cost per student than any other | 18 | | technology-based commercial assessment instrument, thus saving | 19 | | schools a substantial amount of money; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, ISEL was designed by this State and its |
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| 1 | | collaborators to work effectively with any computer operating | 2 | | system and mobile device, thus further reducing the cost of | 3 | | using this instrument; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has adopted the Common Core State | 5 | | Standards and is a member of the Partnership for Assessment of | 6 | | Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC); and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Other states have received recognition for the | 8 | | national use of assessments and other diagnostic instruments | 9 | | developed with their own resources; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, PARCC plans to develop a K-2 formative assessment | 11 | | for early literacy; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 13 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 14 | | we endorse and encourage the use of ISEL by Illinois schools | 15 | | and by the additional 21 states within the PARCC consortium; | 16 | | and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That the State of Illinois formally encourages | 18 | | ISBE to make ISEL available to the other states within the | 19 | | PARCC consortium so that their students and teachers may | 20 | | benefit from this excellent assessment, developed in Illinois | 21 | | by Illinois early literacy experts, institutions of higher |
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| 1 | | learning, educators, and administrators; and be it further | 2 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 3 | | delivered to the Chairperson of the State Board of Education | 4 | | and the PARCC governing board.
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