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Student scores on standardized tests are one of the leading measures of student achievement and educator accountability today What this means is that teachers must know how tprepare their students with all the necessary skills for solid success on state exams In this new handbook by award-winning educators Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K Darling, teachers will find a step-by-step guide taccomplishing that critical goal In five concise chapters, the authors clarify and simplify for teachers the process of unpacking their own state standards, using a data base that aligns best practices tall of the state standards and ranks those instructional practices according ttheir effectiveness Their text provides a model thelp teachers determine what benchmarks really require students tknow and be able tdat different grade levels By the end of the book, educators will have a framework for how tteach sthat lesson plans and assessments will map tthe standards and benchmarks, with the goal of deeper learning and higher student achievement The book includes ready-to-use strategies and a collection of reproducible templates, resources, bibliography, and indexá ... Read more Read less
