Have you had the Kilgo training on questioning stems? Melinda Hawkins 5th Grade ELA/SS McCulloch Intermediate School Highland Park ISD (214) 780-2325 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Maggie Dillier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/21/07 22:16 PM >>> I am not sure what I've decided! Some responses were helpful - i.e., while teaching a strategy like making connections, work in a test-type question at the end of the minilesson - but my personal Achilles heel is not having a year-long framework. I just start improvising and waste too much time! I would be very afraid of not teaching all the types of questions completely.
Does anyone else have fresh insight into authentic, non-boring test prep? ~Maggie 5th/TX On 8/21/07, Melinda Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I teach 5th LA/SS in TX, too....I am having the same questions!!!! What > have you decided? > > Melinda Hawkins > 5th Grade ELA/SS > McCulloch Intermediate School > Highland Park ISD > (214) 780-2325 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> "Maggie Dillier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/21/07 16:13 PM >>> > 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. > > Does any recommend *A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests*: > *Knowledge > is Power*< > http://www.amazon.com/Teachers-Guide-Standardized-Reading-Tests/dp/032500000X/ref=sr_1_1/102-8169924-2470553?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185051526&sr=8-1 > >by > Lucy Calkins et al.? A review says it is strategies-based, but there > isn't much more information about it. I did read *Test Talk: Integrating > Test Preparation into the Reading Workshop *on the Stenhouse website, but > it > was too general for my taste. I'd like to figure out, very > specifically, when and how to integrate these lessons. Anyone have ideas > or > know the Calkins book? > > Thank you! > ~Maggie > 5th/TX > > -- > Maggie Dillier > > -- > Maggie Dillier > > "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood > and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the > endless immensity of the sea." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
