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Summary
Acclaimed author and educator Nancy Steineke offers the definitive how-to handbook for implementing highly structured and productive assessment activities. Building on her thirty-two years of classroom experience, Nancy shows teachers how to balance their approach to assessment and easily incorporate performance projects into their curriculum. After chronicling the research and rationale behind live assessments, Nancy describes strategies that teachers can use to foster a supportive classroom culture where assessment activities and presentation skills flourish. The chapters that follow outline ten specific live assessments that can be used to personalize learning and help your students show what they know. Each chapter presents:
Author Biography
As an English teacher at Victor J. Andrew High School in Tinley Park, Illinois, Nancy Steineke has witnessed firsthand the potential of collaborative, performance-based learning in extending and refining student knowledge. In addition to informing Assessment Live!, this experience has likewise influenced her other Heinemann books. Mini-lessons for Literature Circles with Harvey "Smokey" Daniels (2004), Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide with Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Steven Zemelman (2007), and Reading and Writing Together: Collaborative Literacy in Action (2002).
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Getting Started | p. 1 |
| The Lively Art of Assessment | p. 2 |
| Getting Kids Ready to Go Live: Strategies for Building Confidence and Performance Skills | p. 19 |
| Structures for Live Assessment | p. 47 |
| Academic Controversy | p. 48 |
| Book Buddy PowerPoint | p. 68 |
| Found Poetry | p. 89 |
| PostSecret Project | p. 105 |
| Readers Theatre | p. 116 |
| Tableaux | p. 130 |
| Talk Show | p. 142 |
| Storytelling | p. 158 |
| Songs That Make Ideas Stick | p. 176 |
| Performing a Scene: The Ultimate Assessment | p. 198 |
| Study Guide | p. 221 |
| Bibliography | p. 238 |
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