Free Editable Reading Assessments The Easy Way
Earlier this year I blogged about the awesome website Readworks. I still love it! I meant to follow up with a post about how to create customize-able assessments, but somehow never did. I am so [...]
Testing, Testing
Today was the first day of standarized testing for our kiddos. It was the reading portion. I didn't even take the test and I am exhasuted! I am so proud of my kids- they tried so hard. [...]
Preparing for the Test: Teaching Testing Skills
I have blogged about my feelings about standardized testing before here. One of the things I do is explicitly teach my students how to answer reading comprehension questions using a variety of passages. There are [...]
Preparing for the “Big Test:” Getting Kids Pumped Up!
In my last post I wrote about how we review and get students prepared for the test. Today I will write about how we calm students and get the students to feel like they can [...]