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Assessing Writers

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Anderson's book offers clear, practical suggestions for how to assess and monitor progress in the writing workshop. It helps you figure out how to pick an assessment focus and how to link your data with instruction. I love the tips for picking assessment and conference focuses, with different suggestions based on what you see your writers struggling with. Anderson also provides a variety of record-keeping and conference forms. This book is a must-have for any writing teacher!

I wouldn't be as good a teacher of writing without this book. No kidding. It provides the daily nitty-gritty practical solutions to common writing workshop problems, and has great ideas for conferring, unit planning, troubleshooting, and more. This is for the every day teacher and college folk alike.

Some of the blacklines from this book are ESSENTIAL to my organization of workshop. I can't imagine trying to do it without his advice and guidance. His book was the "Miracle Grow" to my Calkins kit experience. The piece I needed to REALLY pull it off and feel good about it. Heworked in the project with Ms. Calkins, so his ideas line right up with the ideas I already have in motion. I don't work for anybody, but I heartfully encourage you to help yourself by getting this one (and I love his How's It Going? too...)

For an author who spends his life assessing writers, his skills don't apply to himself. I found the wording contrived and awkward. The ideas are good, it's just not presented very well.

This book is an excellent resource for teachers. Carl Anderson's style of writing is easy to read and extremely user friendly and applicable within the classroom.

Dr. Anderson provides his readers with a very readable and helpful book - one that you wish to read more than once at different stages of your work with younger people and your own development. He gives his readers helpful insights and is intellectually stimulating. His ideas on how to work with young writers as well as ways to explore the issues that they are encountering is very helpful. He provides you with suggestions and makes you want to delve deeper into working to help younger writers write and he shows how the conference method is a very successful vehicle. Carl Anderson stimulates you to want to explore the theoretical bases for his apporaches that are provided as references. His second book is a brilliant follow-up to this one and truly helpful to both educators and those committed to supporting the learning process.

Some good ideas, but many that are not very practical with typical kids in a typical classroom - Neil Daly Colorado