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OGT Mentor Standards Based Writing
OGT Mentor Standards Based Writing
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OGT Mentor Standards Based Writing (exit level student edition, revised) by Andrea J. Lapey…
$16.95
This is a 154-page workbook and study guide aimed at helping 10th grade students prepare for the Ohio Graduation Test in writing English. It includes both a pre-test and a post-test to help students (as well as teachers and parents) better evaluate their weak and strong points so they can better focus their studying efforts. Beyond the 40-question pre-test, the book begins with a description of Ohio’s writing competencies or academic standards to provide a better understanding of how the writing portion of the OGT is scored.
Students are expected to create scoring rubrics or charts that define how well they respond to writing prompts on the test to score the most points. They also learn about writing narrative, persuasive and expository essays.
The substance of the book delves into Ohio’s writing standards in three strands: writing processes, writing applications and writing conventions. Strands are further divided into nine competencies. Users are advised about what they should be able to do to meet those standards and competencies through a series of prompts. Checklists are provided to help students evaluate their own progress and score their own compositions. Using writing examples executed by other students, the book illustrates how to obtain high scores on the real test. It suggests additional Web sites where students can get help with their writing skills. It also provides six traits of good writing and shows students how to use them to succeed.
The workbook concludes with a 40-question post-test that allows students (and teachers) to assess their improvement while using the book. Additional worksheets are provided for practice.
A key at the end of the workbook furnishes answers to questions on the pre-test and post-test, as well as the worksheets.
OGT Mentor Standards Based Writing
Editors’ Review:
OGT Mentor Standards Based Writing
Pluses – The workbook appears aligned with Ohio’s academic benchmarks, standards and grade-level indicators. The references to additional Web sites for extra help are valuable and are a unique feature to this series of workbooks. Like others in the OGT Mentor series, this book includes both a pre-test and a post-test that allow students and teachers to better assess progress made using the workbook’s tools. A key at the back of the book provides answers to most questions on both the pre-test and post-test. The spiral binding adds a measure of sturdiness and makes the book easier to handle.
Minuses – The minuses associated with this workbook are almost too numerous to name. No table of contents or introduction leaves it hard to follow. The organization (disorganization) would be confusing for students, as well as professional educators. Production values are poor – very small black type on white stock with few illustrations or graphs – and make the book look amateurish. It looks as though it was printed on a copy machine. Although the book is aligned with Ohio’s benchmarks and academic standards, the authors appear to have no connection to the state. In fact, the author of this writing workbook is also the author of the sister publications on reading and math. For a similar price tag, other OGT workbooks on the market are a better value.
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