1st Edition
What Every Middle School Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests (From Someone Who Has Written Them)
Introduction Section 1: Building Understandings About Tests Chapter 1: Helping Students Build a Test Vocabulary Chapter 2: Helping Students Become Test Savvy 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: 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.”
