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Teaching and Assessing Language Arts
Overview
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Chapter 2 considers how teachers establish a language arts classroom and decide on instructional approaches for teaching and assessing student learning. This chapter describes how to physically arrange a classroom for effective language arts learning to occur. Four instructional approaches, or patterns of practice, that many teachers use as structural models for language arts instruction are presented. They include literature focus units, literature circles, reading and writing workshop, and theme cycles. Also discussed are a variety of assessment tools that teachers draw from in order to determine what students know and can do in language arts and to guide their instruction.
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