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Increasing Test Scores on the State Reading Assessment

Increasing Students' Test Scores on the State

Reading Assessment

Featuring Kristina Smekens

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Workshop Overview

In this era of high-stakes testing, it’s never been more important for students to enter into state reading assessments with the skills and confidence to be successful. This dynamic one-day workshop provides teachers from grades 3-12 with proven strategies for raising test scores by teaching students to apply a full range of reading comprehension and extended-writing response skills.

Training topics

• Recognize the key components of the typical state-assessment reading passage.
• Learn tips and tricks that will aid struggling readers.
• Recognize the value of QAR (question answer relationship) within short–answer and multiple–choice questions.
• Learn strategies for teaching students how to answer an inferential question versus a literal one.
• Understand your state rubric and the significant differences between “passing” and “not passing” the extended-response prompt.
• Learn methods to teach students how to decode a prompt so that they respond to all requirements.
• Acquire lessons and strategies that teach students to refer back to the text and cite specific evidence.

 

When you leave, you will be able to:

  • Execute Kristina’s Top 10 Reading Response Mini-Lessons.
  • Immediately implement classroom techniques that drive students back into the text for evidence and support.
  • Balance classroom reading assignments that include both short, one-sitting passages and longer, multi-day readings.
  • Revise textbook questions to parallel the state assessment in format and structure.
  • Build your students’ test-taking confidence with the principles of QAR (question answer relationship).

 

Call Smekens Education toll free to learn more.
888-376-0448

 

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Smekens Education Solutions is an approved provider of
Illinois Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDUs).
Participants earn 5 CPDUs for attending this workshop.

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For an additional fee, participants in this workshop are eligible to earn
one hour of graduate credit from Purdue University-Calumet.

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Target Audience
- Grade 3-6 Classroom Teachers
- Middle & High School Language Arts Teachers
- Special Education & Remediation Teachers
- Teacher Leaders or Building–Level Coaches
- Building or District–Level - Literacy Coordinators
- High Ability Coordinators
- Title I Teachers/Directors
- Elementary, Middle & High School Principals
- Curriculum Directors

 

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2010 Dates & Locations

November 2, 2010
Evansville, IN
(Marriott Hotel)
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November 16, 2010
Chicago, IL
(Holiday Inn Elk Grove)
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November 19, 2010
Fort Wayne, IN
(Don Hall's Guesthouse)
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December 3, 2010
Indianapolis, IN
(Fishers Conference Center)
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December 9, 2010
Merrillville, IN
(Radisson Hotel)
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