Assessing Writing Teaching Writers

Author : Mary Ann Smith
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807758124
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing Writing, Teaching Writers written by Mary Ann Smith and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many writing teachers are searching for a better way to turn student writing into teaching and learning opportunities. This book introduces a rubric designed by the National Writing Project - the Analytic Writing Continuum. The authors use sample student writing and multiple classroom scenarios to illustrate how teachers have adapted this flexible tool to meet the needs of their students.

Author : Carl Anderson
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing Writers written by Carl Anderson and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson offers smart, ready-to-use ideas for assessment.

Author : Sarah Beck
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807777323
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Think-Aloud Approach to Writing Assessment written by Sarah Beck and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The think-aloud approach to classroom writing assessment is designed to expand teachers’ perspectives on adolescent students as writers and help them integrate instruction and assessment in a timely way. Emphasizing learning over evaluation, it is especially well-suited to revealing students’ strengths and helping them overcome common challenges to writing such as writer’s block or misunderstanding of the writing task. Through classroom examples, Sarah Beck describes how to implement the think-aloud method and shows how this method is flexible and adaptable to any writing assignment and classroom context. The book also discusses the significance of the method in relation to best practices in formative assessment, including how to plan think-aloud sessions with students to gain the most useful information. Teachers required to use rubrics or other standardized assessment tools can incorporate the more individualized think-aloud approach into their practice without sacrificing the rigor and consistency more regulated approaches require. “Details how both students and teachers can benefit from engaging in this practice, and does so in ways that allow readers to adapt it to their own situations.” —Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia “This is the first truly new way of thinking about assessing writing that I have encountered in a long time.” —Heidi L. Andrade, University at Albany–SUNY “An invaluable guide for using think-aloud formative assessments to gain insight into student writing development. Every high school and college writing instructor should read it!” —Amanda J. Godley, University of Pittsburgh

Author : Deborah Crusan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472034197
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessment in the Second Language Writing Classroom written by Deborah Crusan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment in the Second Language Writing Classroom is a teacher and prospective teacher-friendly book, uncomplicated by the language of statistics. The book is for those who teach and assess second language writing in several different contexts: the IEP, the developmental writing classroom, and the sheltered composition classroom. In addition, teachers who experience a mixed population or teach cross-cultural composition will find the book a valuable resource. Other books have thoroughly covered the theoretical aspects of writing assessment, but none have focused as heavily as this book does on pragmatic classroom aspects of writing assessment. Further, no book to date has included an in-depth examination of the machine scoring of writing and its effects on second language writers. Crusan not only makes a compelling case for becoming knowledgeable about L2 writing assessment but offers the means to do so. Her highly accessible, thought-provoking presentation of the conceptual and practical dimensions of writing assessment, both for the classroom and on a larger scale, promises to engage readers who have previously found the technical detail of other works on assessment off-putting, as well as those who have had no previous exposure to the study of assessment at all.

Author : Gary A. Troia
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1609180305
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers written by Gary A. Troia and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. Prominent experts illuminate the nature of writing difficulties and offer practical suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence, and text levels. Topics include writing workshop instruction; strategies to support the writing process, motivation, and self-regulation; composing in the content areas; classroom technologies; spelling instruction for diverse learners; and assessment approaches. Every chapter is grounded in research and geared to the real-world needs of inservice and preservice teachers in general and special education settings.

Author : Kristin Ackerman
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625310390
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conferring with Young Writers written by Kristin Ackerman and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever sat down to confer with a child and felt at a loss for what to say or how to help move him or her forward as a writer, this book is for you. If you are a strong teacher of writing but are not seeing results from your students, this book is for you. Authors Kristin Ackerman and Jennifer McDonough have been teaching writing for several years and know that conferring can be a murky and messy process--perhaps the hardest component of all. Written from the lessons they've learned through hard-won classroom experience--their mistakes and challenges--Conferring with Young Writers is based on what Kristin and Jen call the "three Fs" frequency, focus, and follow-up. They've created a classroom management system that offers routine and structure for giving the most effective feedback in a writing conference. This book will help writing teachers--and students--learn to break down and utilize the qualities that enable good writing: elaboration, voice, structure, conventions, and focus. The authors also provide the knowledge and skills it takes to confer well, which will help you improve as a writing teacher and give your students the confidence to think of themselves as writers.

Author : Ruth Culham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003842062
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teach Writing Well written by Ruth Culham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision. Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision. Divided into two parts, Culham’s book provides ways to teach that are both accessible to the teacher and student. You will find techniques to assess writing that are practical, and results driven. Inside you’ll discover: Culham’s traits of writing and how to use them to read and assess student work Ways to guide revision decisions using these traits as common language How to address challenges students may face within the different modes of writing (narrative, expository, and persuasive) Strategic lessons to teach the writer that scaffold students towards making their own craft decisions A chapter on mentor texts which can be used to model traits and key qualities for your students Teach Writing Well pulls best practices together and shows writing with fresh eyes.

Author : Nancy Mather
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470230797
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities written by Nancy Mather and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on guide for anyone who teaches writing to students with learning disabilities This valuable resource helps teachers who want to sharpen their skills in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing-even those who have not been classified as learning disabled. The book offers a review of basic skills-spelling, punctuation, and capitalization-and includes instructional strategies to help children who struggle with these basics. The authors provide numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and offer helpful suggestions for motivating them. Includes a much-needed guide for teaching and assessing writing skills with children with learning disabilities Contains strategies for working with all students that struggle with writing Offers classroom-tested strategies, helpful information, 100+ writing samples with guidelines for analysis, and handy progress-monitoring charts Includes ideas for motivating reluctant writers Mather is an expert in the field of learning disabilities and is the best-selling author of Essentials of Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement Assessment

Author : Vicki Spandel
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Writers written by Vicki Spandel and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Back Cover: The missing link in effective writing instruction is everyday assessment techniques. These techniques, when used by teachers and students, connect assessment and writing instruction to successful teaching. The benefit is an effective, efficient, and reflective strategy for teaching writing skills. Based upon seven years of collaboration in research and teaching. Creating Writers reveals a clear set of standards for good writing. The authors link these standards to practical strategies, encouraging good writing and evaluation. The result is highly motivated and effective writers and teachers. Creating Writers: Clearly identifies attributes of good writing with developed scoring guides -- Integrates writing assessment with daily writing instruction -- Offers practical tips for saving time and effort in assessing and teaching writing -- Presents practical instructional strategies, with illustrations of their use in the classroom -- Suggests how teachers can share views on what constitutes good writing and participate in evaluating the work of each other's students.

Author : Asao B. Inoue
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602357757
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies written by Asao B. Inoue and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is “more than” its interconnected elements. To explain how and why antiracist work in the writing classroom is vital to literacy learning, Inoue incorporates ideas about the white racial habitus that informs dominant discourses in the academy and other contexts.