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Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Communication Choices for Classroom Teachers - Softcover

Bratcher, Suzanne

 
9780805880014: Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Communication Choices for Classroom Teachers

Synopsis

This handbook offers step-by-step instructions for evaluating and communicating with elementary school students about their writing. It examines the objectives of evaluating writing -- why we grade and what it is we base grading on -- and offers a variety of evaluation strategies teachers can use in different instructional settings. The author stresses throughout that evaluation is a form of communication between teacher and student and that grading strategies are instructional tools that teachers can select and adapt according to specific instructional purposes.

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Synopsis

A handbook offering step-by-step instructions for evaluating and communicating with elementary school students about their writing. The author examines the objectives of evaluating writing and offers a variety of strategies teachers can use in different instructional settings.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.