""Student's writing skills are improving tremendously... Last
year's fourth-graders started using the sandwich method mid-year
and almost all of them scored in the highest possible category when
they took the state's standardized English-language arts test just
a few months later.""
--Wells Central Schools, NY
Wells Central is just one of numerous schools that attribute
their success to Ardith Davis Cole's Better Answers process. Since
2002, her book "Better Answers" has offered teachers and school
districts a powerful alternative to "test-prep" workbooks. It
presents a dramatically different instructional model that helps
students construct thoughtful test responses, but it also prepares
them for any task requiring thorough, cogent answers to questions
and prompts -- both in and out of school.
Now, with students tested more frequently than ever, and with
teachers increasingly concerned about incorporating substantive
test-taking skills into children's learning, Ardith Cole responds
with a new updated and expanded edition of "Better Answers."
Informed by Ardith's ongoing work in classrooms where students
struggle over constructed-response tasks, the new edition makes the
Better Answers "sandwich" even easier to implement. The book has
also been significantly reorganized, as well as expanded to include
two new chapters, "Understanding the Prompt" and "What to do When."
Also included is a resource-packed CD-ROM that contains everything
teachers need to support their lessons and is a great tool for
staff development: lesson plans for text-based and self-based
responses;power point slides, charts, and other visual
supports;sets of sample texts with prompts;sample student
responses;assessment forms;extensive bibliography of print and
online resources.
The Better Answers process is easy to grasp and uses a
gradual-release instructional process that begins with teacher
modeling, invites increasing amounts of student participation, and
eventually moves students into independent response writing. The
book clearly explains each element of the process and provides
helpful activities, authentic classroom vignettes, and tips on how
to handle typical stumbling blocks along the way.
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