Designing Elementary Instruction and Assessment

A practical guide for creating standards-based objectives and assessments aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy!This user-friendly resource gives teachers clear step-by-step guidelines for writing measurable objectives and developing appropriate formative and summative assessments to guide instruction in the elementary classroom. Providing detailed examples for all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy the authors cover unit and daily instructional objectives based on state and national content standards as well as all the major forms of assessment. Teachers discover how to:Deconstruct the standards and write concrete objectivesCreate true-false fill-in-the-blank matching and multiple choice exercisesWrite short-answer questions and essay itemsUse performance-based assessments and portfolios