I second Pauline's thoughts. I would also add that I teach the QAR
strategy at the beginning of the year and then we use this and other
test taking strategies to answer questions in a test format throughout
the year.
We teach test taking as a separate genre. Kids need to know how the
Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email
Groupmosaic@literacyworkshop.org writes:
My district put together a couple of short videos a few years ago, more
to show parents and community members information about Readers' and
Writers' Workshops and Balance Literacy in general. You can find
For a great article readNCTE 2002 article by Donna SantmanTeaching to the
Test?: Test Preparation in the Reading Workshop. From, Philomena
Philomena Marinaccio-Eckel, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University
Dept. of Teaching and Learning
College of Education
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Linda,
What is the QAR strategy?
Terry
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Linda DeGreen ldegr...@fairpoint.netwrote:
I second Pauline's thoughts. I would also add that I teach the QAR
strategy at the beginning of the year and then we use this and other test
taking strategies to answer
I wanted to 2nd Paulines thought too, but someone beat me to it! QAR is
question answer relationship. You teach your students to evaluate the type of
question it is before you answer it. For example is it a Right There question
(literal) Author and me question (inference), etc
I first
Someone on this thread mentioned the need for on-going staff development
in the area of phonics...I believe that all the elements of linguistics
(phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, English orthography,
language development) work together when we teach reading, writing,
spelling, and
We test our students three times during the year to check on progress. I
usually have 4-6 separate groups of spelling/word study levels going. Each week
on Monday I bring each group over to my table and we go over their skill for
the week. Then I give them a corresponding word sort that goes
