Personal Experiences

Hello again everyone.  I see that the number of  visitors has greatly increased in the past few months.  Looking at these numbers, I was thinking that it may be useful for us all to share our experiences teaching the various prompts (persuasive, speculative, and now expository).  Starting a dialogue about what we are working could definitely prove benificial.  I'm sure that there are stories and tips from educators across the grade levels that we could all make use of.  If you'd like to join the discussion, click onto the title of this post and leave a comment at the bottom.

Pete

New year...new test

I was plesantly surprised this morning to see a comment sent to this page which had been idle for the past few months.  It seems that with the new year the state felt the need to gift us with some pretty drastic changes to the ask test.  Last year we were given the speculative and this year our new present is the explanatory prompt.  I will do my best to gather new examples of this prompt and please comment with any that you have used in your classes.

I sent an e-mail to the state last week asking if 6-8 should prepare for speculative prompts.  The answer was that though it does not state that they will be on there, they reserve the right to change this up to the day of the test.  Also, had a workshop on the test last week at Rowan (which was wonderful if you are looking for one) and I will post some of the info up here after I get a chance to look it over.