On The Test, do they have to be able to identify the actual names of the parts of speech, or do they have to pick out a correct sentence, or a correct usage?
On 4/5/07, May Dartez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am on spring break right now, but when we return to school on Monday, > I will have one week to > finish preparing my sixth-graders for our state test. > > In Georgia, our kids are required to know an absolutely ridiculous > amount of grammar terms and skills: > > simple/complete subject/predicate > every part of speech, including SIX types of pronouns: indefinite, > demonstrative, interrogative, subject, object, etc. ) > compound/complex/simple sentences > punctuation > dependent/independent clauses > tone/mood > research skills (key words, which website will contain which > information, reading a bibliography, table of contents, index, etc.) > verb tenses > transition words > topic/closing sentences > unifying idea of a paragraph > predicate nouns > predicate adjectives > direct object > indirect object > object of preposition > fragments > run-ons > > etc. etc. > > My kids have done a great job this year with all of this stuff, but > there is SO MUCH of it. I need to review all of this stuff in 3-4 > 90-minute class periods and don't want to completely bore the kids to > death. Also, they are so squirmy and don't do well with a lot of direct > instruction. > > Any ideas for preparing my kids for the state tests without just making > them completely shut down (especially my one group of strugglers are > getting very frustrated with all the grammar) would be so greatly > appreciated. I want my kids to be prepared, but I don't want us to have > a miserable week next week. > > May > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
