http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/03/books-or-skills/ Challenge The Status Quo Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:57:06 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/03/books-or-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Debbie Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:56:51 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/03/books-or-skills/#comment-154 When we read the 2A writing tests last year, most teachers completely disqualified books like <i>Cat in the Hat</i> and <i>Goosebumps</i> as not worthy of a 2A student's attention or writing focus. It isn't always the level of a book that makes it more or less acceptable, but how it is approached with a class. <a href="http://readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=0&strand=0&engagement=0" rel="nofollow">ReadWriteThink</a> has several secondary-level lessons using Seuss and Silverstein as ways that students can learn higher-order thinking. When we read the 2A writing tests last year, most teachers completely disqualified books like Cat in the Hat and Goosebumps as not worthy of a 2A student’s attention or writing focus. It isn’t always the level of a book that makes it more or less acceptable, but how it is approached with a class. ReadWriteThink has several secondary-level lessons using Seuss and Silverstein as ways that students can learn higher-order thinking.

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