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Does assessment mean grading?
Sometimes. But with writer’s workshop we assess our students’ application of skills on a daily basis. Here are some of the ways in which we assess:
1. We plan interactive mini-lessons where students show us what they know
2. Read more »
September 21st, 2010
Small as An Elephant
Candlewick, March 2011
ISBN: 978-0763641559
Winner of Gold Fiction Award from Parents' Choice
Chosen as Spring 2011 Kids' Indie Next List —
"Inspired Recommendations for Kids from Indie Booksellers."
Selected for The Horn Book Summer Reading List
Audio Book from Brilliance
September 21st, 2010
What about grades?
This is a common question teachers ask when transitioning from traditional writing lessons to writer’s workshop. Let’s take a look at these two formats.
Traditionally teachers have had students write many products (all students writing on the same topic) and graded most of them. Or, over weeks, teachers Read more »
September 14th, 2010
Nifty Organizing Tool
I recently spent two days with teachers at the Lakehurst Elementary School in New Jersey. It was an intense and enormously rewarding time, and I’m looking forward to future visits. While there, teacher Kathy Bixby secured this nifty gadget for holding her writing center supplies (as you Read more »