Grammar Workbook Lessons
Summary: Victory wrote one-page workbook lessons for English Language Learners based on existing lessons in textbook program. Each workbook lesson focuses on an important grammatical concept found in the basal text. Lessons include grammatical information as well as various group and individual practice exercises. Facts: Conceptualized and wrote 72 ELA lessons for ESL students spanning…
Read MoreRead MoreCalifornia English Language Development (ELD) Program
Summary: In Phase 1, working under an extremely tight deadline, Victory developed the Access Path within StudySync’s existing grades 6-8 TE reading lessons. Designed for English language Development (ELD) students, the Access Path offers scaffolded instruction for Emerging, Expanding, Bridging, and Approaching readers. The integration of the Core Path and the Access Path gives teachers…
Read MoreRead MoreELA-Balanced Literacy Sidebars
Summary: Victory was contracted to develop sidebar content for ELL student activities, formative assessments, and vocabulary-building exercises for a Balanced Literacy program. The ELA team developed these sidebars for 6 grade levels, containing 35 weeks within each grade, spanning 6 units. Victory also developed language objective statements for each unit across all grades. Facts: Developed…
Read MoreRead MoreMassachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure
Summary: Victory is a subcontractor in a five-year project to write, edit, and QC test items for the Massachusetts teacher licensure examination. We also research passages and create final art. The items evaluate content knowledge for world and United States history, English, mathematics and sciences. Assessments in the 5-year project will cover these major categories:…
Read MoreRead MoreFluency Tutor
Summary: Victory was contracted to write low-level and high-level nonfiction passages, each with Common Core State Standards-aligned questions for struggling readers. Fluency Tutor’s primary tactic is to have struggling readers record their voices as they read, and each Victory passage was vetted with that auditory learning goal in mind. Facts: Developed over 60 nonfiction passage…
Read MoreRead MoreMath High Stakes Item Bank
Summary: In need of a high stakes assessment item bank for the state of Pennsylvania, Client tasked Victory with creating 180 math items for grades 3–5 (60 per grade). Items were written to align to assessment anchors, descriptors, and eligible content of the Pennsylvania Core Standards. Facts: Wrote 180 mathematics high stakes assessment items spanning…
Read MoreRead MoreELA Formative Item Bank
Summary: In need of a considerable formative assessment item bank, Client tasked Victory with creating hundreds of ELA items. Teachers have the opportunity to hand-pick passage sets from the formative item bank that best serve their assessment needs; every item has been aligned to the Common Core Reading Standards. Although not developed for high-stakes assessment,…
Read MoreRead MoreSTAR Math (Spanish)
Summary: The Client needed a thorough revision of existing K–12 Spanish math practice items for bilingual or dual-language programs. Victory’s Spanish editorial and math teams ensured the accuracy of the content, consistency of math terminology, quality of the art, and grade-level appropriateness. Facts: A total of 5,000 multiple-choice items were revised, on time and on…
Read MoreRead MoreEconomics Tutorials
Summary: Victory’s team of social studies editors, instructional designers, graphic designers, and software developers produced 9 engaging and highly interactive tutorials. Editors conceived the content based on publisher requirements and crafted the text Instructional designers devised the interactives and the self-paced learning flow Graphic designers created a cutting-edge graphical language as well as a polished…
Read MoreRead MoreEnvision Math
Summary: Victory developed the Grade 4 California, Texas, and National editions for the SE, TE, and ancillaries, and translated two grade levels, all in 14 months. When other developers missed deadlines, Victory took on additional English editorial development work for grades 5 and 6. In the translation project, the Bilingual Teacher Edition required intensive coordination…
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