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Rapid Response Cards – Checking for Understanding
This is a response technique to give students practice in answering recall and some critical thinking types of questions. Rapid Response Cards are any type of response cards you use with your...
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Rapid Response Cards – Punctuation
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Student Assessment – Verbs and Verb Tense
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MEAP Constructed Response – Examples of Scoring Guides
Examples of Prompts for Reading Constructed Response Download this document to get a feel for what the constructed response prompts and scoring tools look like. In the booklet you’ll find four...
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MEAP Constructed Response Reading
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An Activity to Help Students Write Conclusions
Have you ever struggled with helping students write a good conclusion? This is a simple and powerful activity I designed to help students understand the difference. Download the pdf of the strategy,...
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Motor Mouth Review
Motor Mouth is simply an engaging strategy for students to review important vocabulary. This can be used in any class at any grade level. Did I mention that this is also fun? I’ve included the...
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Content Card – Details, Details, Details
Details and examples are one of those areas that students have struggled with when writing. Being able to cite details and examples is a skill that is valuable in reading, writing, thinking, and...
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Examples of Lessons for Teaching Vocabulary: ELA K-12
You already know how important it is to teach vocabulary. You likely also know that we need to be directly teaching important vocabulary words. I’ve provided these examples to give you an idea of...
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Rapid Response Cards – Checking for Understanding
This is a response technique to give students practice in answering recall and some critical thinking types of questions. Rapid Response Cards are any type of response cards you use with your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rapid Response Cards – Punctuation
Download these pdfs: Overview sheet, black and white template, yellow template.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Student Assessment – Verbs and Verb Tense
This is a quick assessment for the following two objectives: (1) Identify the verb in a sentence, and (2) Identify the verb as past or present. Download the pdf of the assessment, answer key, and data...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MEAP Constructed Response – Examples of Scoring Guides
Examples of Prompts for Reading Constructed Response Download this document to get a feel for what the constructed response prompts and scoring tools look like. In the booklet you’ll find four...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MEAP Constructed Response Reading
I designed this handout to provide some ideas related to the Reading constructed response items for the Fall 2009 MEAP test. In this short piece, I share the item descriptors for the reading...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Activity to Help Students Write Conclusions
Have you ever struggled with helping students write a good conclusion? This is a simple and powerful activity I designed to help students understand the difference. Download the pdf of the strategy,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Motor Mouth Review
Motor Mouth is simply an engaging strategy for students to review important vocabulary. This can be used in any class at any grade level. Did I mention that this is also fun? I’ve included the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Content Card – Details, Details, Details
Details and examples are one of those areas that students have struggled with when writing. Being able to cite details and examples is a skill that is valuable in reading, writing, thinking, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Examples of Lessons for Teaching Vocabulary: ELA K-12
You already know how important it is to teach vocabulary. You likely also know that we need to be directly teaching important vocabulary words. I’ve provided these examples to give you an idea of...
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