Download or read book Inside the Writing Portfolio written by Carol Brennan Jenkins and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Writing Portfolio addresses the primacy of teacher knowledge in the portfolio process. It seeks to answer such questions as: What do we need to know in order to assess the personal narratives, stories, and nonfiction pieces that children choose for their portfolios? How do we mark their progress? What do we need to know to assess the conventions of spelling, punctuation, and handwriting? How do we assess children's self-assessment insights and their goals for future learning? Jenkins makes the case for the collaborative portfolio - one that merges the selections, reflections, and goals of both the child and the teacher. She takes the stance that if portfolio assessment is to stand as a viable alternative to standardized measures, it is essential to capture the insights of both child and teacher in order to illuminate the full extent of a child's learning - past, present, and future. Jenkins walks us through the collaborative portfolio of third grader Shane and then follows his progress through grades four and five. Research findings are presented in conjunction with Shane's writing record, writing samples, excerpts from his interviews and surveys, and other materials. Jenkins also analyzes additional work from younger and older children to illustrate the development of writing across a broad age range. She completes the assessment picture with writing samples from home, highlighting the expansive nature of literacy.
Download or read book Conferring with Young Writers written by Kristin Ackerman and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever sat down to confer with a child and felt at a loss for what to say or how to help move him or her forward as a writer, this book is for you. If you are a strong teacher of writing but are not seeing results from your students, this book is for you. Authors Kristin Ackerman and Jennifer McDonough have been teaching writing for several years and know that conferring can be a murky and messy process--perhaps the hardest component of all. Written from the lessons they've learned through hard-won classroom experience--their mistakes and challenges--Conferring with Young Writers is based on what Kristin and Jen call the "three Fs" frequency, focus, and follow-up. They've created a classroom management system that offers routine and structure for giving the most effective feedback in a writing conference. This book will help writing teachers--and students--learn to break down and utilize the qualities that enable good writing: elaboration, voice, structure, conventions, and focus. The authors also provide the knowledge and skills it takes to confer well, which will help you improve as a writing teacher and give your students the confidence to think of themselves as writers.
Download or read book Portfolio Assessment in the Reading writing Classroom written by Robert J. Tierney and published by Christopher-Gordon Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography and index.
Download or read book Portfolio Assessment for the Teaching and Learning of Writing written by Ricky Lam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides teachers, instructors, scholars, and administrators with a practical guide to implement portfolio assessment of writing in their work contexts. Unlike most existing volumes, which underscore theory building, it describes and discusses several key issues concerning how portfolio assessment can be carried out in authentic classrooms with a focus on its processes, reflective components, task types and design, scoring methods and actionable recommendations.
Download or read book Situating Portfolios written by Kathleen Yancey and published by . This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating Portfolios is both reflective and forward-looking, practice-oriented but well-grounded in theory. Kathleen Yancey and Irwin Weiser bring together thirty-one writing teachers from diverse levels of instruction, institutional settings, and regions to create an inviting volume on current practice in portfolio writing assessment. The contributors here reflect on the explosion in portfolio practice over the last decade, why it happened, what comes next; discuss portfolios in hypertext, the web, and other electronic spaces; report on current and new contexts, from emergent literacy to faculty development, in which portfolios now appear; and consider emerging trends and issues that are involving portfolios in teacher assessment, faculty development, and graduate student experience. An energetic volume, Situating Portfolios gathers a wide range of experience and thinking into one stimulating discussion. It's a book that will be of interest to writing teachers and teacher educators at all levels.
Download or read book Portfolios in the Writing Classroom written by Kathleen Blake Yancey and published by National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte). This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 10 essays argues that portfolios in the writing classroom are worth exploring and that such exploration opens up new opportunities: new ways to learn to write, to think about teaching writing, to understand students, teachers, and curricula, and to describe and report on what is found. The collection makes this argument by sharing the stories of teachers in various situations: teachers alone, teachers as team members, and teachers concerned with administration as well as learning. Three key points are made: that portfolios should be designed locally by teachers and students; that they require periodic review; and that through such reviews more can be learned about writing and its teaching. The articles and authors are as follows: (1) Introduction: Writing Portfolios--Changes and Challenges (Catharine Lucas); (2) Teacher's Stories: Notes toward a Portfolio Pedagogy (Kathleen Blake Yancey); (3) Increasing Student Autonomy through Portfolios (Sue Ellen Gold); (4) Portfolio Practice in the Middle School: One Teacher's Story (James E. Newkirk); (5) Portfolios: Process for Students and Teachers (Catherine D'Aoust); (6) Looking into Portfolios (Sandra Murphy and Mary Ann Smith); (7) Portfolio Reflections in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms (Roberta Camp); (8) Writing Portfolios in Secondary Schools (David Kneeshaw); (9) Portfolio Practice and Assessment for Collegiate Basic Writers (Irwin Weiser); and (10) Portfolios in the Writing Classroom: A Final Reflection (Kathleen Blake Yancey). A 39-item annotated bibliography of resources on portfolios for teaching and assessment concludes the volume. (SR)
Download or read book Writing Portfolio Activities Kit written by Mary Ellen Ledbetter and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this practical resource secondary English teachers will find an individualized, holistic curriculum that involves students in working with real-life models, creating and evaluating their own writing portfolios, and learning to see writing, grammar, and literature as inseparable pieces of the language arts. Over 350 pages of writing activities, teacher and student writing models, and writing guidelines help students learn at their own pace. These are accompanied by handy, easy-to-follow "teacher pages" with suggestions ranging from grading assignments to involving students in the evaluation process to creating mini-lessons for specific units. Covers all steps of the writing process and contains over 150 reproducible worksheets and models for developing students' writing skills in six different modes including Persuasive, Comparison/Contrast, Narrative, Descriptive, How-to, and Literary Analysis.
Download or read book The Visual Palette written by Brian Matiash and published by Rocky Nook, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Mamas Love Their Babies written by Juniper Fitzgerald and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children—piloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip club—this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good parenting. We’re reminded that, while every mama’s work looks different, every mama works to make their baby’s world better.
Download or read book The Silence Within written by Audrey Eitel Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Be a Conscious Eater written by Sophie Egan and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically practical guide to making food choices that are are good for you, others, and the planet. Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken—Cage-Free, Free-Range, Pasture-Raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between? Using three criteria—Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good for the planet?—Sophie Egan helps us navigate the bewildering world of food so that we can all become conscious eaters. To eat consciously is not about diets, fads, or hard-and-fast rules. It’s about having straightforward, accurate information to make smart, thoughtful choices amid the chaos of conflicting news and marketing hype. An expert on food’s impact on human and environmental health, Egan organizes the book into four categories—stuff that comes from the ground, stuff that comes from animals, stuff that comes from factories, and stuff that’s made in restaurant kitchens. This practical guide offers bottom-line answers to your most top-of-mind questions about what to eat. “The clearest, most useful food book I own.”—A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author
Download or read book The Portfolio Book written by Elizabeth F. Shores and published by Gryphon House, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten simple steps to build portfolio assessment into everyday teaching.
Download or read book Writing Portfolios in the Classroom written by Robert Calfee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents chapters by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who study the impact of classroom portfolios in the assessment of writing achievement by elementary and middle grade students. The focus throughout the volume is on the tension between classroom assessment and externally mandated testing. It presents the efforts of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to understand the impact of classroom portfolios for the assessment of writing achievement by elementary and middle grade students. Under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Writing, the editors conducted a national survey of exemplary portfolio projects, arranged for a series of "video visits," and held several working conferences. The result of this work is a broad-ranging tale: the aspirations of teachers and administrators to move the machinery of schooling in the direction of more authentic and engaging tasks, the puzzlement of students when they realize that the assignments are real and that the teacher may not have a "right answer" in mind, and the tensions between ivory-tower ideas and everyday classroom practice. Divided into four sections, this research volume: * provides a historical perspective, develops the conceptual framework that serves as a background for many activities described throughout, and discusses numerous practical issues that confront today's researchers and practitioners; * views the phenomenon of writing portfolios through a variety of broadview lenses such as teacher enthusiasm, student reflection, assessment tension, the portfolio as metaphor, and the locus of control; * conveys important conceptual issues with a balance toward pragmatics; and * offers unique insights from the perspective of one individual who serves as scholar, researcher, and teacher.
Download or read book Guided Reading written by Irene C. Fountas and published by F&p Professional Books and Mul. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of guided reading's critical value within a comprehensive literacy system, and the reflective, responsive teaching required to realize its full potential. Now with Guided Reading, Second Edition, (re)discover the essential elements of guided reading through: a wider and more comprehensive look at its place within a coherent literacy system a refined and deeper understanding of its complexity an examination of the steps in implementation-from observing and assessing literacy behaviors, to grouping in a thoughtful and dynamic way, to analyzing texts, to teaching the lesson the teaching for systems of strategic actions a rich text base that can support and extend student learning the re-emerging role of shared reading as a way to lead guided and independent reading forward the development of managed independent learning across the grades an in-depth exploration of responsive teaching the role of facilitative language in supporting change over time in students' processing systems the identification of high-priority shifts in learning to focus on at each text level the creation of a learning environment within which literacy and language can flourish. Through guided reading, students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process and apply their reading power to all literacy contexts. Also check out our new on-demand mini-course: Introducing Texts Effectively in Guided Reading Lessons
Download or read book Write Beside Them written by Penny Kittle and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units and minilessons and actual conferences with students. -Penny Kittle What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them. Write Beside Them shows you how to do it. It's the comprehensive book and companion video that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing. Across genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Each section of Write Beside Them describes a specific element of Penny's workshop: Daily writing practice: writer's notebooks and quick writes Instructional frameworks: minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts Genre work: narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres Skills work: grammar, punctuation, and style Assessment: evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and grading All along the way, Penny demonstrates minilessons that respond to students' immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. In addition, Write Beside Them provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ. Best of all, the online videos take you right inside Penny's classroom, explicitly modeling how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids. Penny Kittle's active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students. But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Read Write Beside Them and discover that the most important influence for all young writers is their teacher. Penny was the recipient of the 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them.
Download or read book Portfolio Keeping written by Nedra Reynolds and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief and inexpensive, Portfolio Keeping, Third Edition provides all the information students need to create successful portfolios either in print or online. With expanded coverage of e-portfolios, portfolios across the curriculum and outside the academy, and reflective thinking and writing, the new third edition will help students and instructors using portfolios in any situation. This book is also available as an e-book within the Bedford e-Portfolio.
Download or read book Perfect Bound written by Katherine Pickett and published by POP Editorial Services. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Gold Winner, 2014 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards**Silver Winner, 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards*"All the resources and professional insights needed to take your book from 'written' to 'published.' -D. Donovan, e-book reviewer, Midwest Book Review"Five stars. This savvy book is chock full of valuable information laid out in a very accessible format. ... Don't miss this one!" -San Francisco Book Review"This authoritative, step-by-step, behind-the-scenes tour of the book publishing process is essential reading for new authors. ... Perfect Bound is a treasure trove of practical advice for aspiring authors and others who want to understand what it takes to get a book published." -Warren H. Phillips, former executive editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal and copublisher at Bridge Works"Perfect Bound is an indispensable resource for anyone who dreams of making it on his or her own." -Adam Motin, managing editor, Triumph BooksThis updated and revised edition of the multi-award-winning guide Perfect Bound: How to Navigate the Book Publishing Like a Pro features new exercises for choosing your path to publication, condensed and updated information on e-book companies, a discussion of hybrid publishing, and an updated Resources section. A new interview with an e-book formatter sheds light on this specialized area of publishing.Readers will also find current costs associated with publishing and even more ways to save money. Additional information on marketing options such as blog tours and article placements will help authors reach more potential readers than ever.Each chapter walks readers through a different stage of production, highlights the major problems that sideline unsuspecting authors at that stage, and carefully explains how to avoid them. Anecdotes from a dozen other publishing professionals illuminate what it takes to publish a book. Defining your audience, performing market analysis, reviewing page proofs, getting the most bang for your marketing efforts, and much more, are covered.Authors will save time, money, and embarrassment when they know what to expect, and what is expected of them, on the road to publication.
