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Powerful strategies, tools, and techniques for educators teaching students critical reading skills in the humanities.

Every educator understands the importance of teaching students how to read critically. Even the best teachers, however, find it challenging to translate their own learned critical reading practices into explicit strategies for their students. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum: Humanities, Volume 1 presents exceptional insight into what educators require to facilitate critical and creative thinking skills.

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This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy-in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms,...

The Handbook of Reading Assessment, Second Edition, covers the wide range of reading assessments educators must be able to use and understand to effectively assess and instruct their students. Comprehensive and filled with numerous authentic examples, the text addresses informal classroom based assessment, progress monitoring, individual norm-referenced assessment, and group norm-referenced or 'high-stakes' testing. Coverage includes assessment content relevant for English language learners and adults. A set of test guidelines to use when selecting or evaluating an...

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The TILLS(TM) Forms Set contains a pack of 25 Examiner Record Forms and pack of 25 Student Response Forms. One Examiner Record Form and one Student Response Form is required for each student who takes the TILLS.

The Examiner Record Form is used to record and score student responses to all 15 TILLS subtests. This form clearly describes materials needed, start rules, basal and ceiling rules, and information about allowable prompts and repetitions.

The Student Response Form is a booklet students use to record their responses on the following four TILLS...

Essential for effective use of the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™), this in-depth Examinera (TM)s Manual walks professionals through administration and scoring of the assessment. With this start-to-finish manual, TILLS examiners will:

• review the purposes, uses, background, and components of TILLS
• get comprehensive instructions on administering all 15 TILLS subtests
• find answers to frequently asked questions about TILLS
• learn specific considerations for testing students with previously identified special...