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Post by Mark Alford on Feb 17, 2010 15:19:17 GMT -5
Just interested if any of you have tried any programs. If you did, tell us what it was and if it was worth the $.
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Post by Mark Alford on Apr 15, 2010 13:47:45 GMT -5
Our school just got STARS and CARS. We'll play around with it some this year, but won't really get to put it in action until next year. It looks promising. The program my AP got is for 7th and 8th grade, but with my 9th graders, it will be challenging enough. Has anyone else tried this program yet?
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Post by carolinateacher on May 9, 2010 18:38:09 GMT -5
We use Study Island. It is pretty good, but my students had to use it so much in 8th grade that they are a little burned out on it. We also have usatestprep.
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Post by Mark Alford on May 10, 2010 13:37:30 GMT -5
Study Island is another one that I need to check out. We have access to it in our district, but my elementary school son came home talking about it and I guess I just never made the leap to thinking it was also a high school site. Thanks for pointing that one out!
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Post by teachfornchah on Jan 19, 2011 16:53:49 GMT -5
Our district keeps trying to push for use of Class Scape, but the other English I teachers & I like USA Testprep better.
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Post by Mark Alford on May 26, 2011 14:06:58 GMT -5
So a year has gone by and the Stars and Cars program worked out pretty nicely. I didn't really get into the Stars part, but I used most of the Cars idea. The idea behind it is to give 5 pretests. Each passage has 12 questions. The 12 question types are the exact same for each passage. For example, #1 is always finding main idea and #6 is always word meaning in context. When you are done with the 5 pretests, you can see which question types that your students are missing the most. Then you can assign them a certain number of Focus activities (the Focus books comes with the Cars program). Each Focus book centers around a different type of question. This way I can give one student more practice in making predictions and a different one more practice in finding main idea. After that, you give them the 5 Benchmark tests. Do the same thing with the Focus and then follow up with the Post Test.
I like it because it is the only reading comprehension practice I've seen that really isolates the question type.
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