Written performance that looks good and sounds smart, second editionBetter Answers offers teachers and school districts a powerful alternative to "test-prep" workbooks with instructional models that help students construct thoughtful responses both in and out of school. Now, with students tested more frequently than ever, Ardith Cole responds with an updated and expanded edition of
Better Answers. The new edition has been significantly reorganized to include two new chapters on "Understanding the Prompt" and "What to do When." The book includes a CD-ROM with lessons plans, power point slides, sample student responses, assessment forms, and an extensive bibliography. Ardith clearly explains each element of the
Better Answers process and provides helpful activities and authentic classroom vignettes. (3-8) 232 pp.
"Students' writing skills are improving tremendously… Last year's fourth-graders started using the sandwich method mid-year and almost all of them scored in the highest possible category when they took the state's standardized English-language arts test just a few months later."
—Wells Central Schools, New York
Wells Central is just one of numerous schools that attributes its success to Ardith Davis Cole's Better Answers process. Since 2002, her book Better Answers has offered teachers and school districts a powerful alternative to "test-prep" workbooks. It presents a dramatically different instructional model that helps students construct thoughtful test responses, but it also prepares them for any task requiring thorough, cogent answers to questions and prompts -- both in and out of school.
