Okay, a question first: if I turned off the email option and just read the posts online (you guys write a LOT!), can I not respond to posts from the website? This seems like a weird way to do it - I've posted, below, my response to Linda and Linda's original post.
I liked Test Talk too, but I was REALLY hoping for some concrete curriculum. It seems all they share is the first and last lesson in an unit. I would like more details on the day-to-day components of a test-prep curriculum. So no, I haven't tried the lessons. I am in need of a framework for ALL of my reading lessons. (See post that will follow shortly!) Linda, I'd be eager to hear what you end up doing with their ideas! I need a mentor in this area. :) ~Maggie Hi Maggie, I am reading Test Talk right now, and I think it is great. I teach third grade and we do a unit test after five stories. I am going to take 1 day a week and follow their mini-lessons and see if it helps. I am not through the whole book, but I do think they have a lot of good points. Teaching test taking like it is a genre and getting kids to really look for the text structure. I think that because it was a schoolwide movement, they did not make specific lessons - just general strategy lessons so everyone in the school could use them. Did you just read the book or did you try the lessons and they didn't work? I am anxious to know because like I said, I am reading it now. Thanks, Linda Buice -- Maggie Dillier "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
