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Language and Literacy Education

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2015

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Independent Reading: Effective Student Assessment In Middle School, Simone Simon Jan 2015

Independent Reading: Effective Student Assessment In Middle School, Simone Simon

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The findings of the current literafure suggest that encouraging independent reading and cultivating lifelong readers, as the state standards require , are best served by activities and assessment that differ from traditional summative assessments. This paper examines current strategies and evaluates practices in teaching and assessing independent reading, and provides a toolbox for how a district can incorporate those recommendations into a revised curriculum.