My students will be taking the NECAP Reading Test this-coming week. I've been trying to prepare them for the written responses to reading they'll be doing. Therefore, I've tried to create some of my own materials. Here's one thing I did. First, we read Lenore Look's book Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding. Second, we talked… Continue reading Practicing Written Responses to Texts
Category: standardized tests
The Test
When I lived in NYC, I never had to prepare my fifth graders to do writing on the State ELA Test since there was only a graphic organizer and a short response that the kids had to write about a passage. However, here in Rhode Island, we're preparing our fourth graders to take the New… Continue reading The Test
