1st Edition
What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests (From Someone Who Has Written Them)
By Charles Fuhrken
Copyright 2009
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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When he was a student struggling to concentrate on dreadfully boring passages of standardized reading tests, Charles Fuhrken remembers thinking to himself, 'Who writes this stuff?' He had no idea that one day it would be him. ' Fuhrken has spent years working as a writer for several major testing companies, and he believes that what he's learned about testing could be very usefuleven... Read more
Introduction; Section 1: Building Understandings About Tests; Chapter 1: Common Beliefs About Test Making: Fact or Fiction?; Chapter 2: Common Beliefs About Test Taking: Fact or Fiction?; Section 2: Exploring Strategies for Reading Tests; Chapter 3: Vocabulary Development; Chapter 4: Important Ideas; Chapter 5: Literary Elements; Chapter 6: Literary Techniques; Chapter 7: Interpretations; Chapter 8: Activities for 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; Conclusion
Biography
Charles Fuhrken. For the past twelve years, Charles has worked in assessment for three major test publishers and on testing programs for several states, as well as on norm-referenced achievement tests. After completing a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, Charles began writing What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests. “From talking to teachers in various arenas,” he says, “I’ve come to understand that teachers want and deserve to be informed about tests, but currently they feel either uninformed or misinformed.”
"A from-the-horse's-mouth account that lays out what teachers need to know about reading tests in plain terms."- Midwest Book Review
