Keywords
literacy instruction, test prep, state assessments, English teachers, writing process
Submission Type
Research
Preview
“Slang. Dialect. Ethnic terms. Stream of Consciousness. . .” With state testing only a few months away, Heather felt pressured to cover another eight remaining literary terms she had not yet covered from the eleventh grade state language arts core (USOE, 1996, 31). The unfinished task buzzed at the edge of her consciousness. She wanted her students to succeed. But how could she teach them these remaining state core requirements in a way that would foster, not squash, their clever inventiveness? Her biggest fear was that a classroom usually sizzling with creativity and moxie would fall asleep when her eleventh grade morphed into a dull “drill platoon” to prep for the state test.
Recommended Citation
Grierson, Sirpa and Wing, Heather Hansen
(2009)
"Mad Hot Classroom: Test Prep and Literacy Instruction as Imaginative Dance Partners,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 37, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol37/iss1/8