Don’t have time to read this article? Listen here! Grading hundreds of papers is the bane of an English teacher’s existence. Don’t get me wrong. I love being able to get a thorough look into the minds of my students and their writing abilities. Reading their writing can actually be quite pleasurable. It’s slapping a […]
Assessment
10 Ways to Publish Student Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide
Publishing student writing is the cornerstone of a successful writing workshop program. At the beginning of each of my writing units I tell students they will write many different drafts within a writing genre and pick one to revise intensely and then to publish. In this article I’ll present many options for publishing student writing, […]
Writing Assessment Just Got Easier
I’m going to be honest here. In my opinion, writing assessment is the worst part of a writing teacher’s job. As objective as we try to be while assessing with rubrics and checklists, grading writing is subject to our attitudes, relationships and even our mood! This may be why I haven’t written very much on this […]
Test Prep Fun…Yeah, You Read that Right!
It’s that time of year…Teachers and students are feeling the pressure to begin preparing for the big end of the year state test. How can writing teachers go about preparing their students for these tests while also making sure students still enjoy the writing process and don’t feel utterly drained, stressed, worried or even […]