Assessing Writers

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Pearson Education Canada, 2005 - Education - 252 pages

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 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
  • how 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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Contents

Why Assess?
1
Getting Started Developing an Assessment Lens
14
Assessing Students as Initiators of Writing
27
Copyright

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About the author (2005)

Carl Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in writing instruction for grades K-8. He works as a consultant in schools and districts around the world. Carl is the bestselling author of numerous books including How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts K-5, A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences, Assessing Writers, and How's It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers.

Bibliographic information

TitleAssessing Writers
AuthorCarl Anderson
Editionillustrated
PublisherPearson Education Canada, 2005
Original fromthe University of Virginia
DigitizedNov 25, 2009
ISBN0325005818, 9780325005812
Length252 pages
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