Sorry I'm jumping in during the middle of this conversation, but I'd be
interested in knowing what the definition of formative assessments is. My
fear is that some of the common formative assessments are just practice
summative assessments, or checkpoints during a unit. My thinking is that
I agree that we can induce an overkill of surface level strategy instruction
if we're not careful. After years of strategy instruction some students begin
giving canned responses and lose the love of reading and learning. They think
the strategy is the goal instead of understanding, learning,
