Prompts in honor of the Royal Wedding...

So my daughter came home from school today and told me that she would need to wear her best dress to school tomorrow.  Her teacher is asking all of the students to dress up for the Royal Wedding.  In order to take advantage of this occasion, I put up a few prompts that could be used to keep the students'...or teacher's...interest.

2010-2011 NJASK Information from the Dept. of Ed.

With the test quickly approaching, I thought that I would share the information that the state has provided for what to expect on this year's test.  First of all, the dates would be May 3-6 for Grades 6-8 and May 9-13 for Grades 3-5.

Below the cut, I will briefly explain what the students should expect in the upcoming weeks, according to the NJDoE.

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

Hello fellow parents and teachers!

My name is Pete Dolcy and I happen to teach Seventh Grade Language Arts in South Jersey. As many of you well know, the state has thrown us a curve ball and changed the writing prompts on the NJASK test. As such, I have noticed on various webpages that many of us teachers are scrambling to find any examples of speculative prompts that we can. I thought that using this blog, we may be able to pool our resources and create a database of prompts that could be used across the state. Please click on the comments section and leave any ideas that you may have for prompts and if you feel that this would be useful. I will begin listing the prompts that I receive under the Persuasive or Speculative prompts links. Additionally, any information that I may receive about the ASK test will be listed in future blog entries.

Thanks for your interest and I look forward to hearing from all of you!