Assessing writers / Carl Anderson.

By: Anderson, Carl, 1960-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2005Description: xvi, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0325005818 (alk. paper); 9780325005812 (alk. paper)Subject(s): English language -- Composition and exercises -- Ability testing | English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) | Lesson planningDDC classification: 372.62/3 LOC classification: LB1576 | .A61585 2005Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Why Assess? -- Getting Started: Developing an Assessment Lens -- Assessing Students as Initiators of Writing -- Assessing How Well Students Write -- Assessing Students' Writing Processes -- Linking Assessment and Instruction: Designing Individual Learning Plans for Students -- Linking Assessment and Instruction: Conferring -- Linking Assessment and Instruction: Designing Units of Study.
Summary: Offers practical methods for gathering information about every writer in the classroom and shows how to create writing lessons that address the needs of individual students as well as the whole class. Anderson's straightforward approach helps imagine an ongoing assessment program that takes the teacher from meeting new students to designing curriculum. Find out what you need to know about students to assess them as writers; how to uncover and make sense of this information; how to make an individualized plan for each student; how to use these plans when you confer; and how to structure units of study to meet classroom-wide needs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why Assess? -- Getting Started: Developing an Assessment Lens -- Assessing Students as Initiators of Writing -- Assessing How Well Students Write -- Assessing Students' Writing Processes -- Linking Assessment and Instruction: Designing Individual Learning Plans for Students -- Linking Assessment and Instruction: Conferring -- Linking Assessment and Instruction: Designing Units of Study.

Offers practical methods for gathering information about every writer in the classroom and shows how to create writing lessons that address the needs of individual students as well as the whole class. Anderson's straightforward approach helps imagine an ongoing assessment program that takes the teacher from meeting new students to designing curriculum. Find out what you need to know about students to assess them as writers; how to uncover and make sense of this information; how to make an individualized plan for each student; how to use these plans when you confer; and how to structure units of study to meet classroom-wide needs.

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