High School Grades 9-12
High School Graduation Qualifying Examinations
At the high school level there is an increased need to
focus on the skills students need to successfully pass
the High School Graduation Qualifying Examinations. The
Department of Education's web site provides important
and helpful information for teachers. We especially recommend:
Practice Tests (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0
or better)
Teacher Resources
Go there now: http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/assessment/hsgqe.html
Six Traits of Effective Readers
The following six traits of effective readers helps
teachers pinpoint what they should be seeing in middle
school and high school readers. The six traits of an effective
reader (the discrete skill areas that identify what good
readers do)—are:
- Decoding conventions of writing, organization, and
genre. Advanced students are able to recognize correct
grammatical constructions, understand the function of
punctuation, and have an awareness of spelling conventions.
They can identify the title, author, and components
of the text, such as the table of contents and chapter
headings. And they can identify the genre.
- Establishing comprehension. Students can state or
write a thesis statement; name major and minor examples
of the thesis; identify the turning moments with facts
and examples; and connect the turning points to the
main thesis.
- Realizing context. Students can use examples from
the text to discuss the author’s intentions and
inferred meanings, both implicit and explicit.
- Developing interpretation. Students can identify
problems in texts and resolve them using clues and evidence.
- Integrating for synthesis. Students can connect text
with other texts, subjects, and experiences.
- Critiquing for evaluation. Students can, with insight
and evidence, critique ideas and perspectives found
in the reading.
Source: Toolkit98 is designed to assist classroom teachers
to become better assessors of student learning. http://www.nwrel.org/nwreport/oct98/article1.html
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