by imavexadmin | Mar 1, 2019 | [Reading]
Collect Short Passages The kind of reading students do for standardized tests is often very different from the experiences we provide in the classroom. It’s not necessarily different in content or genre or even vocabulary. It’s different in length! The...
by imavexadmin | Mar 9, 2018 | [Reading]
Integrate Excerpts into Comprehension Instruction Mar 9, 2018 | [Reading] State and national reading assessments don’t ask students questions about entire novels. Rather, they typically provide excerpts from longer texts. Students are presented these texts with...
by imavexadmin | Apr 13, 2015 | [Reading]
For the secondary-level ELA teacher looking to meet the multi-text expectations of the new standards–you’ll love Jim Burke’s digital anthology. He’s organized resources into user-friendly categories and subcategories, including speeches,...
by imavexadmin | Sep 18, 2014 | [Reading]
As everyday readers, we seek several texts for information on the same topic. When a situation breaks out in the world, we may “catch it” on TV, initially. Then, we read more in the newspaper (print or online versions) the next morning. We listen to...
