A Closer Look

Learning More About Our Writers with Formative Assessment

Lynne Dorfman, Diane Dougherty

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003843818
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

In A Closer Look, Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty provide the tools and strategies you need to use formative assessment in writing workshop. Through Lynne and Diane's ideas, you will be able to' establish an environment where students will internalize ways that they can assess their own writing and become independent writers. Lynne and Diane share methods for collecting and managing information, and show practical, simple, and concise ways to document student thinking. In the accompanying online videos, they demonstrate conferences with individual writers, small groups, and whole groups. Quick, easy-to-manage assessment methods emphasize that formative assessment does not have to take a long time to be worthwhile and effective. Vignettes from classroom teachers, principals, and authors add a variety of perspectives and classroom experiences on this important topic. A Closer Look shows that when students are in charge of their own writing process and set and reach their own goals, writing becomes a vibrant, energetic part of the day. '

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Relationship Between Assessment and Evaluation
• Chapter 2 Surveys, Inventories, And Letters
• Chapter 3 Checklists and Rubrics
• Chapter 4 Anchor Charts: A Record of Student Thinking and Evidence of Progress
• Chapter 5 Roving Conferences
• Chapter 6 Teacher and Student: One-on-One, Small-Group, and Whole-Group Conferences
• Chapter 7 Peer Conferences: A Chance to Grow, Share, and Receive Immediate Feedback
• Chapter 8 Self-Assessment: Opportunities for Reflection
• Chapter 9 Quick And Easy: Tips to Formative Assessment That Will Help You Maintain Your Sanity in the Age of Testing
• Afterword
• Appendix 1: Conference Schedule for the Week of
• Appendix 2: Conference Notes for Narrative Writing
• Appendix 3: Conference Notes for Informational Writing
• Appendix 4: Conference Notes for Opinion Writing
• Appendix 5: Conference Notes for Argumentative Writing
• Appendix 6: Notice, Ponder, Polish Conference
• Appendix 7: Ways to Respond
• Appendix 8: Notice, Ponder, Polish Form
• Appendix 9: NPP Sentence Stems (Notice, Ponder, Polish)
• Appendix 10 Peer Conference Reports
• Appendix 11 Peer Conference Response Form
• Appendix 12 Appendix 12 Peer Response Share (Grades K–2)
• References
• Index