I agree with you and next year hope to incorporate daily work like you do to assess and review instead of these last few weeks.
Thank you for the great card idea with their names on a deck of cards for choosing, etc. They love this type of change in middle school....probably any grade. I will use this too. Thanks for sharing, Kim. Lucinda ----- Original Message ----- From: "kimberlee hannan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [LIT] test-prep > This may start a new discussion, but I'll go there anyway. > > This is not a quick review. This is a system that I fought tooth and nail > against for months, and lost. But I must admit, I have found it useful. > We > actually use a "test prep" curriculum called "Standards Plus." I can't > find > exactly where it came from. > > By doing this a little every day, we have negated the need to use a review > now that we are so close to testing. We use it five minutes every day. > Now > I never use a worksheet curriculum the way it is laid out. I HATE > worksheet > work, so I put it on my computer projector, and we do it together. They > write their answers in a cheap notebook. I have found that I like the way > it > addresses standards in very small chunks. It has no more than 6 questions > on a sheet. It maintains what they've learned, and assess right in order. > I even use the tests as lessons. It touches on standards I may have not > specifically taught, nor would I have had time to teach a full lesson on. > But because these standards have been touched on, I can spend three > minutes > explaining them. I do not use the scripted part, but our new teachers do. > > As you all have said, the middle schoolers need action. I write the kid's > names on regular playing cards with permanent markers. Every day, I > shuffle > the deck and flip over the cards for folks to answer the questions. Now I > toss the cards to a student and let them do it. I LOVE your white board > idea. I have got to figure out a way to incorporate that into the > Standards > Plus. What a paper saver and BOREDOM saver. > > Kim > > -- > Kimberlee Hannan > Department Chair > Sequoia Middle School > Fresno, CA > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.26/746 - Release Date: 4/4/2007 > 1:09 PM > > _______________________________________________ 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
