Prepare students with learning disabilities for state testing
To prepare students with learning disabilities for state testing in reading, teachers often require 
students to highlight text within a reading passage. A colleague of mine, Tracie A. Ramos, shared a best teaching practice that works well as an alternative approach to highlighting and motivates students to verify answers to reading comprehension questions.
Ask students to fold a legal sized piece of paper length wise. Label the left column “Questions” and the right column “Proof.” Next, provide the students with a copy of a reading passage followed by the comprehension questions. Direct the students to cut out the questions and glue or tape them in the left column. Then, have the students cut out the parts of the text that support the answer to each question. Instruct the students to glue or tape the proof in the right column of the paper opposite the questions.
Verification is an essential task that can help students with learning differences be successful on state reading tests. Creating proofs is one method that can help students verify answers to reading comprehension questions.
Kenneth Eberhardt
Instructional Specialist
PCI Education
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This sounds like a fun and creative way to practice comprehension questions for our state’s standardized tests. My students have grown tired of the highlighting technique you mentioned, so I’m anxious to give this a try. Thanks so much for the idea. By the way, PCI has some really awesome products. Several of my colleagues have bought your games and the kids just love to play them. Thanks again!
I’ll be monitoring your BLOG and looking for ideas to help my ESL students in test preparation.
Thanks for your feedback Sue – we appreciate it!