Now Online: Better Answers, Second Edition
December 2008
Do you and your students struggle adapting to high-stakes tests that require written responses? What can you do to help the student whose responses are too shallow, disorganized, or lack good introductions? How can you develop meaningful ways to use assessment results to inform your instruction and help students grow?
In the revised and expanded edition of Better Answers, Ardith Cole guides teachers with a proven protocol for constructing written answers on standardized tests:
- Develop an introduction
- Build a body of details
- Draw a conclusion
You and your students will improve your understanding of prompts and discover a variety of ways to restate the question and develop a "gist answer" before building a more detailed response. The new edition has been reorganized and includes two new chapters, as well as a CD with lesson plans, classroom PowerPoint lesson slides, charts, samples, rubrics, and live links to Web resources.
Better Answers replaces boring, time-consuming test-prep workbooks with an approach that can be applied throughout the curriculum in a meaningful way, and can be extended to real-world situations beyond tests. It will be available in late January, and you can preview the entire text online now.
Read more about Ardith Davis Cole.
