A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests : Knowledge Is Power

Acknowledgments vi Part I: Confronting the Tests The Challenge 1(10) Learning Enough to Talk Back to the Tests 11(20) Part II: Teaching Reading in the Shadow of Standardized Tests When a Concern for Scores Drives the Curriculum 31(18) The Overlap of Good Teaching and Good Test Scores 49(16) Part III: A Curriculum for Test Preparation Rethinking Test Preparation 65(11) Reading the Test Passages 76(18) Navigating the Formats of Tests 94(11) Mastering the Tricks and Avoiding the Traps 105(18) The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 123(14) Part IV: The Politics of Testing: A Guide to Survival The Politics of Reading Scores and the Community 137(27) Taking Our Place at the Policy Table 164(19) Glossary 183(2) Suggested Readings 185(3) References 188(4) Index 192