Assessing Writers

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!

Interesting and helpful in some aspects for application in elementary setting.

Amazing book with resources to light the spark for new and veteran teaching in the realm of writing!

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.

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.

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...)

It has some good ideas but a very short read for the price.

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