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Writing
June 2006
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Assessing with heart
Ours is a nation obsessed with assessment. We assess our students continuously, and while it is a very good thing to establish accountability and to see how things are going, […]
Immersion in writing
Ruth Devlin has been teaching young writers for 15 years, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. The books her 2nd graders have written fill their classroom library, a […]
Immersion in writing
Ruth Devlin has been teaching young writers for 15 years, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. The books her 2nd graders have written fill their classroom library, a […]
Student work
Most elementary school teachers have taken at most a twohour composition class in college focusing on their own writing, not on how to teach it (Urquhart & McIver, 2005, p. […]
Examining 4 myths about learning to teach writing
There is no single program for improving student writing, but there are common elements of programs that help kids learn to write well. Likewise, there is no professional development program […]
Assessing with heart
Ours is a nation obsessed with assessment. We assess our students continuously, and while it is a very good thing to establish accountability and to see how things are going, […]
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