Assessing Writers

Assessing Writers

Carl Anderson

Publisher: Heinemann Educational BooksFormat: Paperback

When it comes to writing assessment, there's no better judge of what your students know and are able to do than you. And when it comes to advice on best practices for assessment, there's no better source than Carl Anderson's “Assessing Writers.” Like he did in the popular and highly acclaimed "How's It Going?,“ Anderson offers smart, ready-to-use ideas for assessment. ”Assessing Writers" offers practical methods for gathering information about every writer in your classroom and shows you how to create writing lessons that address the needs of individual students as well as the whole class.Anderson's straightforward approach helps you imagine an ongoing assessment program that takes you from meeting new students to designing curriculum. In “Assessing Writers” you'll find out: what you need to know about students to assess them as writershow to uncover and make sense of this information how to make an individualized plan for each studenthow to use these plans when you conferhow to structure units of study to meet classroom-wide needs.Let Carl Anderson be your guide as you place assessment at the center of writing instruction. With a wealth of smart suggestions, useful charts, reproducible rubrics, and activities for professional reflection, Assessing Writers gives you powerful tools that make assessment simple and effective.

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