10 Writing Opportunities to "Teach to the Test"

Within the current political and educative context, where high‐stakes standardized assessments create a pressure‐filled experience for teachers to “teach to the test,” time spent on writing instruction that supports students in transferring their learning between classroom and assessment contexts is...

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2013-04, Vol.66 (7), p.569-573
Main Author: DeFauw, Danielle L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
and materials
as inquiry
Assessment
Audience
Childhood
Childrens literature
Competition
Contests
Creative writing
Digital/media literacies
Early adolescence
Early childhood
etc.
Fiction
Genres
Instructional strategies
Internet
Learning
Mentors
methods
Motivation
Motivation/engagement
music
Nonfiction
Persuasion
Political factors
Purpose
Specific media (hypertext
Standardized
Standardized Tests
Strategies
Student writing
Teachers
teaching strategies
TEACHING TIP
To inform instruction
To learners in which of the following categories does your work apply?
Web Sites
Websites
Writer's workshop
Writing
Writing assignments
Writing for Publication
Writing Instruction
Writing strategies
Writing teachers
Writing Tests
Writing workshops
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Summary:Within the current political and educative context, where high‐stakes standardized assessments create a pressure‐filled experience for teachers to “teach to the test,” time spent on writing instruction that supports students in transferring their learning between classroom and assessment contexts is crucial. Teachers who must use prompts to prepare students for standardized writing assessments can utilize writing contests and/or publication opportunities available on the Internet to prepare students for the context of standardized assessments. Contest writing can motivate students to practice writing to prompts for distant audiences. Ten websites are shared of organizations that host no fee writing contests and/or publishing opportunities for students to write in various fiction and/or nonfiction persuasive, explanatory, and narrative genres. The majority of these sites also post winning contest entries and/or publish anthologies/magazines of students’ writing that can be used as mentor texts for students to analyze and emulate to improve their writing.
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI:10.1002/TRTR.1161