This book demonstrates how formative assessments, unlike standardized tests, provide the kind of communication between teachers and students that help teachers make instructional decisions to improve student performance.
This expanded, all-new edition of the definitive guide to common formative assessments features new field research and proven strategies that will enable educators to make more accurate inferences about student understanding so they can ...
Assess and address the language proficiency and linguistic needs of your English language learners using the assessment techniques and resources in this handbook.
Based on a five-year collaborative project with middle and high school teachers in three major school districts, the book presents a process for: Weaving a language focus into content lessons Analyzing students' language from writing ...
Align, Assess, Achieve Ohio K-5 English Language Arts Aligning Curriculum to Guide Instruction, Formative Assessment and Differentiation
This book infuses research-based best practices of formative assessment through the lens of Common Core, with assessment support in these areas: read-alouds, guiding language into reading, language and literacy centers, and independent ...
Complete with diagrams, graphic organizers, classroom examples, assessment tools, and lists of core understandings, this timely guide presents a comprehensive answer to the big questions about teaching English language arts.
... —which short story do you think is the quintessential example of gothic literature? Joyce Carol Oates's “The Artist” Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Wedding Knell” Edgar Allen Poe's “The Oval Portrait” H. P. Lovecraft's “The Outsider” ...
This book considers why summative assessment in English is difficult and explores viewing it as an arts subject rather than one which is quantifiable and assessable objectively.
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Words their way: Word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Beck, I. L., McKeown, M. G., & Kucan, L. (2002). ... Writing instruction for young children.