Re: Writing for State Assessments

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I'm glad this issue has come up...My district just received our state  scores 
back, and although most of our students are scoring proficient, our  
administrators are urging us to boost our advanced proficient numbers.   There seems 
to be particular emphasis given to improving  our writing scores.  I am so sick 
of these tests and am  concluding that what and how I teach is apparently not 
enough, so I appreciate  all the resource and tips folks are willing to 
share.  I will be checking  out both recommendations.  
 
Thanks,
Cathy
 
In a message dated 7/1/2007 5:12:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
ira_writer@hotmail.com writes:

Connect  with your state writing projects!   You may go to  
http://www.writingproject.org or directly to the map of sites.   
http://www.writingproject.org/About/map.csp  Writing projects do a  lot of 
good/great stuff to include introducing teachers to Nancie Atwell,  Ralph 
Fletcher and many others.  The National Writing Project is well  grounded and 
NOT a canned program.  Please check it out and talk to  others (many are 
writing project teacher-consultants on this  list).

Robin Sowder
Indiana Writing Project


 



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