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Article: 6 ways to assess writing.
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- January 1, 1996
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Strategies to help you and your young writers track progress
Do You spend too many hours evaluating your students' writing? What can you do to encourage kids to look at their work with insight? While there are no amazing shortcuts when it comes to thoughtful assessment, there are techniques that don't eat up tons of time and yet are highly effective. Here are six assessment strategies that have made a difference in my classroom.
1 Conduct a survey. I believe it is critical for students to want to write and view themselves as having something to say. To get students to think about themselves as writers and to see writing as a tool for self-expression, I ...