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When reading tests attack
- 08-04-2011
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Blog by Rachel Levy/The Core Knowledge Blog
During my first year of full-time teaching ESOL and Social Studies at an inner-city Washington, DC, high school, my principal approached me and told me that my students had come to her saying how much they were enjoying history class. I explained to her my intent to teach content but with a reading and writing intensive emphasis, to build those skills which were quite low among our school’s students. She was enthusiastic and I was thrilled. A few weeks later, she attended our Social Studies department meeting where she explained to us that since there were no standardized tests in Social Studies, from that point forward, we were required to spend one-fifth of our class time teaching the Stanford-9 Reading Test. For each of my students, I had to make charts based on testing data showing the skill (for example “context clues”) and how they did on that skill. (more...)
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