Texts and Tests: Teaching Study Skills Across Content Areas

Flippo, Rona F

ISBN 10: 0325004919 / ISBN 13: 9780325004914

Published by Heinemann, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Texts and Tests: Teaching Study Skills Across Content Areas
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0325004919
• ISBN 13: 9780325004914
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

 

Texts and Tests is a unique nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers of grades 1 through 8 that covers not only the teaching of study skills, but also test-taking techniques in ALL subject areas. Rona Flippo spells out specific study-learning strategies to develop and reinforce:

• reading
• report writing
• summarizing
• response writing
• outlining
• discussing
• researching
• preparing for objective or essay tests

–all applicable across the curriculum, no matter what grade you teach.

About the Author

Rona Flippo has taught early childhood and elementary classrooms, as well as upper levels, and is currently a full professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Graduate College of Education. Her publications include over ninety articles in leading reading and education journals and numerous books, including the Heinemann titles What Do the Experts Say? (1999), Assessing Readers (2003), Texts and Tests (2004), and Personal Reading (2005). Rona is well known for her "Expert Study," and has been featured on educational television programs dealing with assessment, instruction, testing, studying, and literacy issues. She is active in professional literacy organizations and currently chairs IRA's Committee on Intellectual Freedom.