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Teaching Tips
Five Ways to Prepare for Standardized Tests Without Sacrificing Best Practice

Liz Hollingworth

What can teachers do in their classrooms to help students prepare for a high-stakes, standardized, multiple-choice reading test without sacrificing what they know to be best practice? Decreasing class sizes or other solutions that require substantial changes in school finance are not usually realistic options. This article outlines five suggestions for practicing teachers to improve the reading test scores of their students without making drastic changes to how they already teach.

Abstract from Hollingworth, L. (2007, December). Five Ways to Prepare for Standardized Tests Without Sacrificing Best Practice. The Reading Teacher, 61(4), 339–342. doi: 10.1598/RT.61.4.7