Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
An inexpensive handbook often used as supplementary course reading.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.