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teaching strategies
ReadWriteThink Graphic Map as an Assessment Tool
|  The Student Materials offered on the ReadWriteThink site offer students the opportunity to be involved in the assessment process in a meaningful way. Learn how the Graphic Map can be used to illustrate the needs of a reader.
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Primary Book Handling Assessment
| What other assessment tools could be useful for a young reader? Here is one that Wayne Serebrin used in the new early literacy study. |
The Learning Response Log: An Assessment Tool
| This January 1997 English Journal article showcases how eleventh grade students take responsibility for demonstrating their thinking and learning through the use of learning logs.
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Exhibitions of Mastery: The Tail that Wags the Dog
| The authors demonstrate how "exhibitions of mastery" provide varied and rich opportunities for students to demonstrate learning in the English Classroom.
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Teaching in a World Focused on Testing
|  Top ten ways to remain true to excellent teaching despite the tug of war around testing.
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professional readings
Suggestions for Responding to the Dilemma of Grading Students' Writing
| People learn to write by writing and in fact we know our students need to write more, the next conversation is about the volume of grading that goes along with that. The authors of this January 1997 English Journal article provide a number of approaches.
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Reading the Data: Making Supportable Claims from Classroom Assessment
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Assessment should be an integral part of the teaching process. From September 2001 English Journal. Themes issue "Assessing Ourselves to Death" available for sale.
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Improving Learning Through Classroom Assessment
|  Classroom-based assessment should inform instructional planning and differiented practices. Including students in the process and increasing specific feedback improves learning. This School Talk issue offers insights into collecting evidence of student learning, how to communicate the evidence of that learning, and involving parents in the process.
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related resources
NCTE Consultants Specializing in Assessment
|  Are you looking for meaningful ways to assess student learning and inform instructional practice? Would you like to begin using portfolios but you're not sure how to get started? NCTE consultants can help by presenting authentic, ongoing classroom-based assessment strategies to your staff. |
More Ways to Handle the Paper Load: On Paper and Online
|  The 23 essays—focusing on classroom practices, portfolios, peer review and evaluation, and the expanding electronic paper load—offer teachers in secondary and postsecondary settings exciting, classroom-tested strategies for responding to writing.
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Framing Statements on Assessment
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Writing Matters Kit
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Author Cathy Fleischer offers framing questions and professional readings to challenge readers think about what a quality writing program looks like in this time of testing.
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Writing on Demand: Best Practices and Strategies for Success
|  Give your students the opportunity to develop the proficiency and confidence they need to succeed in on-demand writing situations without abandoning the principles behind an effective writing program.
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When Kids Can’t Read What Teachers Can Do
|  Kylene Beers offers us a comprehensive handbook with a series of "if a student can" "then…" strategies for comprehension, vocabulary, word recognition, fluency, spelling, and responding to literature.
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