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Formative Assessment for Literacy, Grades K-6
Foreword by Deborah Stipek
Use formative assessment to build language and literacy skills across the curriculum!
Grounded in research and practice, this book shows elementary teachers how to use formative assessment as an integral part of effective language and literacy instruction for all students, including English language learners. This reader-friendly resource offers strategies for developing students' understanding of academic language—the vocabulary used in classroom instruction and found in textbooks and tests—and also:
- Examines the stages in literacy skill development
- Helps teachers implement different kinds of formative literacy assessments such as observations, planned-for interactions, and analyses of student responses
- Shows how formative assessment fits within broader frameworks for assessment and instruction
- Grade Level: K-6
- ISBN: 9781412949088
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2008
- Page Count: 224
- Publication date: January 28, 2013
Price: $39.95