Author: Susan Koehler Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1934338184 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
Teachers can improve students' reading comprehension, address writing weaknesses, and provide test-taking practice with multiple-choice assessments for grades 3-8. Fifteen skill sets cover focus and organization, style and composition, and conventions and mechanics.
Author: Rebecca Bowers Sipe Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Explores how purposeful writing instruction can be used in the high school classroom to help students build the writing skills needed to succeed in college and the business world.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 620
Book Description
The purpose and objectives of this qualitative teacher research (Hubbard, Power, 1993) is to explore my teaching by examining the purposeful writing of my students as I consider the following questions:1. How does a teacher actualize a system of beliefs in a specific classroom context?2. How do fourth grade children evolve as writers over the school year?3. How is writing measured on district developed benchmark writing tests and the Georgia Criterion Referenced Competency Test?4. What are fourth grade children's perspectives on purposeful writing?I teach from a humanistic perspective (Rogers, 1980) and these principles lead me to emphasize purposeful writing, which I define as writing that has its roots in topics and feelings the writer cares about, and writing experiences that have a clear function and audience. I analyzed the students' writing using a 6-trait 4-point writing rubric. Authentic assessment at the state and district level was not provided for the children and writing ability was not measured authentically other than in the classroom. Major conclusions of this study include:1. Purposeful writing increased children's enjoyment of writing;2. Student oral presentations of prewriting are an effective method for the revision and editing of their written work;3. Written language is a tool for self-expression. This tool should be applied in ways that encourage learners to develop and define themselves;4. Students were most satisfied with the inquiry projects that encouraged them to answer their own questions;5. In light of increased feedback, students were more willing to rework their papers multiple times to develop a clear message;6. In response to a desired connection with peers, students chose to communicate more in writing;7. Students worked at and valued the art of storytelling and presentation of material that mattered;8. Students took more risks in their writing; and9. Reflecting on student writing provided many opportunities to actualize my belief system as a teacher in the classroom.
Author: Douglas Fisher Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 1416613145 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 183
Book Description
In this practical guide, authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey offer a variety of strategies that K-12 teachers can use to craft effective, standards-based purpose statements, assignments, and tests across grade levels and content areas.
Author: Kristine Mraz Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books ISBN: 9780325077888 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Play is serious business. Whether it's reenacting a favorite book (comprehension and close reading), negotiating the rules for a game (speaking and listening), or collaborating over building blocks (college and career readiness and STEM), Kristi Mraz, Alison Porcelli, and Cheryl Tyler see every day how play helps students reach standards and goals in ways that in-their-seat instruction alone can't do. And not just during playtimes. "We believe there is play in work and work in play," they write. "It helps to have practical ways to carry that mindset into all aspects of the curriculum." In Purposeful Play, they share ways to: optimize and balance different types of play to deepen regular classroom learning teach into play to foster social-emotional skills and a growth mindset bring the impact of play into all your lessons across the day. "We believe that play is one type of environment where children can be rigorous in their learning," Kristi, Alison, and Cheryl write. So they provide a host of lessons, suggestions for classroom setups, helpful tools and charts, curriculum connections, teaching points, and teaching language to help you foster mature play that makes every moment in your classroom instructional. Play doesn't only happen when work is over. Children show us time and time again that play is the way they work. In Purposeful Play, you'll find research-driven methods for making play an engine for rigorous learning in your classroom.
Author: IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment Publisher: International Reading Assoc. ISBN: 0872077764 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 60
Book Description
With this updated document, IRA and NCTE reaffirm their position that the primary purpose of assessment must be to improve teaching and learning for all students. Eleven core standards are presented and explained, and a helpful glossary makes this document suitable not only for educators but for parents, policymakers, school board members, and other stakeholders. Case studies of large-scale national tests and smaller scale classroom assessments (particularly in the context of RTI, or Response to Intervention) are used to highlight how assessments in use today do or do not meet the standards.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309314429 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 501
Book Description
The assessment of young children's development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing programs to enhance the school readiness of all young children, especially children from economically disadvantaged homes and communities and children with special needs. Well-planned and effective assessment can inform teaching and program improvement, and contribute to better outcomes for children. This book affirms that assessments can make crucial contributions to the improvement of children's well-being, but only if they are well designed, implemented effectively, developed in the context of systematic planning, and are interpreted and used appropriately. Otherwise, assessment of children and programs can have negative consequences for both. The value of assessments therefore requires fundamental attention to their purpose and the design of the larger systems in which they are used. Early Childhood Assessment addresses these issues by identifying the important outcomes for children from birth to age 5 and the quality and purposes of different techniques and instruments for developmental assessments.
Author: Richard Gentry, Ph.D. Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 1480776882 Category : Languages : en Pages : 12
Book Description
Download this easy-to use benchmark writing test today and use it as a formative assessment in your third grade classroom. Included are suggested prompts, a rubric, assessment tools, and writing samples.
Author: Ross Young Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000298841 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
This book explores what writing for pleasure means, and how it can be realised as a much-needed pedagogy whose aim is to develop children, young people, and their teachers as extraordinary and life-long writers. The approach described is grounded in what global research has long been telling us are the most effective ways of teaching writing and contains a description of the authors’ own research project into what exceptional teachers of writing do that makes the difference. The authors describe ways of building communities of committed and successful writers who write with purpose, power, and pleasure, and they underline the importance of the affective aspects of writing teaching, including promoting in apprentice writers a sense of self-efficacy, agency, self-regulation, volition, motivation, and writer-identity. They define and discuss 14 research-informed principles which constitute a Writing for Pleasure pedagogy and show how they are applied by teachers in classroom practice. Case studies of outstanding teachers across the globe further illustrate what world-class writing teaching is. This ground-breaking text is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the current status and nature of writing teaching in schools. The rich Writing for Pleasure pedagogy presented here is a radical new conception of what it means to teach young writers effectively today.
Author: Susan Koehler
Author: Rebecca Bowers Sipe
Author: 
Author: Douglas Fisher
Author: Kristine Mraz
Author: Alison Morawek
Author: IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment
Author: National Research Council
Author: Richard Gentry, Ph.D.
Author: Ross Young