Reading like a Detective and Writing like a Reporter is TOUGH!
As teachers begin to facilitate our first few weekly and
unit assessments don’t be alarmed if you children’s assessment scores are not
quite as high as they were on last year’s reading tests. As I have shared in the past, our new
curriculum brings with it some higher expectations for students and also some
shifts in the way that they are asked to dissect and comprehend text. We now ask students to read far more non-fiction
and rigorous text and to also provide text-based answers, based on evidence
from within the reading. We ask
students to write from sources, like many professionals do within the working
world, we are also asking them to constantly utilize increased levels of
academic vocabulary. With a little more practice, our student' reading test scores will most certainly improve and while our
expectations are indeed higher, we do feel that we as educators and students
alike will soon feel a sense of pride as we surpass these increased
expectations and move to greater levels of college and career readiness.
