In Reading Workshop, students have read passages, wrote and rewrote answers, and been "practiced up" into submission. They dream at night of "back in the day" when language arts was about reading and writing, thinking and discussing. Their dreams are of a time before legislators decided schools and their students should be controlled by torture/testing.
Students have been working hard, preparing for the Ohio Achievement Assessment and they are surviving. Not only are they surviving, but they are getting smarter. They are reading critically, and attacking questions to find the point. They are shredding selections to find those details that earn all 4 points on an extended response question. Best of all is they are learning words, and they are much better than the words they learned on the back of the bus in third grade.
Good job students! Tuesday is the day and your success on the test will make me smile.
Here's a chance to help your peers, Reading Workshop students. What advise advice do you have to help your classmates on the reading test?
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