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
Kat,
You have given me some FABULOUS ideas for test preparation. I love the idea
of integrating the questions into the normal read-aloud time. So you have
the kids themselves think of a question type (main idea, for example) that
fits with what you just read, and then *they* create the answer
Hi all,
I am thinking about how to best prepare my kids for the state reading test
this year. I don't want to do a very traditional, here are the 12 types of
questions and I'll cram passages down your throat for 12 weeks approach -
I'd like to make it as authentic and workshop-esque as possible.
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.
get the kids that are
well below grade level at the beginning of the year.
Kat
3rd/TX
- Original Message -
From: Maggie Dillier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: [MOSAIC] Standardized reading tests + reading
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