Section 1. Building understandings about tests -- Common beliefs about test making : fact or fiction? -- Common beliefs about test taking : fact or fiction? -- Section 2. Exploring strategies for reading tests -- Vocabulary development -- Important ideas -- Literary elements -- Literary techniques -- Interpretations -- Text matters -- Section 3. Putting strategies to work -- Section 4. Demonstrating understandings with reading activities -- Activities for vocabulary development -- Activities for important ideas -- Activities for literary elements -- Activities for literary techniques -- Activities for interpretations -- Activities for text matters
Summary
The content of tests can be puzzling to students and teachers alike. While a state test purports to measure the curriculum, often the curriculum standards seem mysterious as well & mdash;written in code or so general in meaning that it seems impossible for teachers to know if their instruction will adequately prepare their students .€ & mdash;Charles Fuhrken € When he was a student struggling to concentrate on dreadfully boring passages of standardized reading tests, Charles Fuhrken remembers thinking to himself, & ldquo;Who writes this stuff?€He had no idea that one day it would be
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260) and index
