Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms

Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms
Author: Martin Coles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134751206

This second book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.

Assessing Reading: Changing practice in classrooms

Assessing Reading: Changing practice in classrooms
Author: Martin Coles
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1998
Genre: Educational tests and measurements
ISBN: 9780415148955

This volume focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and on how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.

Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing

Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing
Author: IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment
Publisher: International Reading Assoc.
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2009-12-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0872077764

With this updated document, IRA and NCTE reaffirm their position that the primary purpose of assessment must be to improve teaching and learning for all students. Eleven core standards are presented and explained, and a helpful glossary makes this document suitable not only for educators but for parents, policymakers, school board members, and other stakeholders. Case studies of large-scale national tests and smaller scale classroom assessments (particularly in the context of RTI, or Response to Intervention) are used to highlight how assessments in use today do or do not meet the standards.

Assessing Reading 1: Theory and Practice

Assessing Reading 1: Theory and Practice
Author: Colin Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134751273

This book, along with its companion volume Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms, was originally conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England. It focuses particularly on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment, especially state and national approaches to classroom-based assessment in the USA, the UK and in Australia, at both primary and secondary levels. Chapters offer new perspectives on the theories that underlie the development and interpretation of reading assessments, national assessments and classroom-based assessment, challenging readers to think in different ways.

Making Formative Assessment Work: Effective Practice In The Primary Classroom

Making Formative Assessment Work: Effective Practice In The Primary Classroom
Author: Hall, Kathy
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335213790

This volume explains and exemplifies formative assessment in practice. Drawing on incidents and case studies from primary classrooms, it describes and analyses how teachers use formative assessment to promote learning.

Policy, Belief and Practice in the Secondary English Classroom

Policy, Belief and Practice in the Secondary English Classroom
Author: Bethan Marshall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350025992

Studies of comparative classroom practice in the teaching of secondary English are limited, especially when it comes to exploration of the day-to-day practice of English teachers in the secondary classroom. This book presents a case study analysis of secondary classroom practice in three countries: Canada, England and Scotland. Each country has had different degrees of state involvement within the secondary English curriculum over the last twenty years. England has had the highest degree of state involvement in that it has had several statutory national curricula and a variety of assessment regimes. Scotland has had a non- statutory curriculum and no national tests and Canada has had no national curriculum at all, with education being determined at province level, and each province varying its policies. The research adopts a case study approach involving both classroom observation and interviews with teachers. Through this, the authors explore the impact of state involvement on the reality of what happens in secondary English classrooms. The book invites readers to consider the applicability of the findings to their own contexts, to examine their own practice in the light of this and to consider the nature of the relationships between policy, personal belief and practice in the teaching of English.

Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, PreK-2

Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, PreK-2
Author: Lesley Mandel Morrow
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1462507662

"The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the first academic standards to be independently adopted by almost every state in the country. The purpose and intent of the Common Core standards for English Language Arts (ELA), as well as Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science Education, are the focus of this book. Each of the chapters addresses one of the major English Language Arts domains: literature, informational texts, foundational skills, writing, speaking and listening, language, technology, and assessment. The objective of the chapters is twofold: to provide a theoretical background and detailed explanation of each of the CCSS/ELA standards, as well as practical suggestions, classroom vignettes, models, instructional resources, and unit ideas to implement the standards"--

Teaching English, Language and Literacy

Teaching English, Language and Literacy
Author: Dominic Wyse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135103909

‘This book is comprehensive, up-to-date, critical and authoritative. It is also, above all, well written. It will undoubtedly become standard reading for the next generation of teachers in training and practising teachers will also learn a great deal from dipping into its contents.' - David Wray, Professor of Literacy Education, University of Warwick ‘[A] well organised and comprehensive guide to the teaching of English and the teaching of language’ Margaret Mallett - Emeritus Fellow of The English Association Are you looking for one book that covers every aspect of the teaching of English at primary level? Now fully updated, this third edition of Teaching English, Language and Literacy includes brand new chapters on children’s literature and reading comprehension. Rooted in research evidence and multidisciplinary theory, this book is an essential introduction for anyone learning to teach English from the early years to primary school level. The authors draw on their research, scholarship and practice to offer advice on: developing reading, including choosing texts, and phonics teaching improving writing, including grammar and punctuation language and speaking and listening planning and assessing working effectively with multilingual pupils understanding historical developments in the subject the latest thinking in educational policy and practice the use of multimedia maintaining good home-school links gender and the teaching of English language and literacy All the chapters include clear examples of practice, coverage of key issues, analysis of research, and reflections on national policy to encourage the best possible response to the demands of national curricula. Each chapter also has a glossary to explain terms and gives suggestions for further reading. This book is for all who want to improve teaching English, language and literacy. Designed to help inform the practice of students on teacher training courses, but also of great use to those teachers wanting to keep pace with the latest developments in their specialist subject, this book covers the theory and practice of teaching English, language and literacy.

The Reading for Real Handbook

The Reading for Real Handbook
Author: Martin Coles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2002-08-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113460078X

The Reading for Real Handbook was very well received by both teachers and literacy specialists when it was published in 1992. Since its first publication there have been significant changes in the field of 'reading', not least of which has been governmental demands for higher standards in reading and the resultant National Literacy Strategy (NLS). As well as providing invaluable help for teachers struggling with the National Literacy Strategy and the Literacy Hour, several other new topics of interest are also addressed, including teaching fiction/non-fiction inside and outside the Literacy Hour, integrating reading, writing and spelling work, involving parents, assessment and working with slower readers.

Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, Grades 3-5

Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, Grades 3-5
Author: Lesley Mandel Morrow
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1462507913

"The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the first academic standards to be independently adopted by almost every state in the country. The purpose and intent of the Common Core standards for English Language Arts (ELA), as well as Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science education, are the focus of this book. This volume is aimed at educators, administrators, graduate students, university professors, and others who deal with students in grades 3 through 5. Each of the chapters addresses one of the major English Language Arts domains: literature, informational texts, foundational skills, writing, speaking and listening, language, technology, and assessment. They contain invaluable information, insight, and research from literacy leaders in their respective fields. Their objective is twofold: to provide a theoretical background and detailed explanation of each of the CCSS/ELA standards, as well as practical suggestions, classroom vignettes, models, instructional resources, and unit ideas to implement the standards"--