Sample Activities

Some of the many activities which are part of the program:

• Learning the Strategy: Attacking the passage or problem by becoming an engaged, critical reader and math thinker.
• Modeling the Strategy: Recognizing the differences between right and wrong answers.
• Practicing the Strategy: Showing teachers how to use sample Passages or problems with teachers role playing students.
• Using the Strategy: Using passages or problems from teacher's own classroom materials to employ the strategy to other workshop participants.
• Learning the Similarities: Activities that solidify the understanding of the common characteristics between the FCAT Reading and Math Tests ... and playing a game.
• Learning the Differences: Participating in activities to help teachers learn how teaching reading for school is different from reading for a standardized test. Participating in activities that help teachers show their students numbers of simple techniques that improve math scores.

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*FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) is copyrighted by the Florida Department of Education which is not affiliated with Stetson University.