[MOSAIC] (Mosaic) Standardized reading tests

[Linda Buice]

Hi Maggie,

I am reading Test Talk right now, and I think it is great.
I teach third grade and we do a unit test after five stories.
I am going to take 1 day a week and follow their mini-lessons and 
see if it helps.  I am not through the whole book, but I do
think they have a lot of good points.  Teaching test taking like
it is a genre and getting kids to really look for the text structure. I
think that because it was a schoolwide movement, they did not
make specific lessons - just general strategy lessons so everyone
in the school could use them.  Did you just read the book or did
you try the lessons and they didn't work?  I am anxious to know because 
like I said, I am reading it now.

Thanks,
Linda Buice