We’re reading Lucy Calkins’ Writing Pathways:
Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions, Gr. K-8. Need a copy? Blog if you want to enter our raffle for a free
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Here’s our schedule for Lucy Calkins’ Writing Pathways: Gr. K-8.
In July, we’ll read and
discuss Part 1 Chapters 1-3:
Ch. 1 Assessment Toolkit
Ch. 2 1st Step: Conducting
On-Demand Performance Assessments
Ch. 3 The Norming Meeting and Subsequent
Scoring: Developing Shared Expectations
In the first half of August,
we’ll read and discuss Part 1 Ch. 4-6:
Ch. 4 Using Early Results to Plan & Adapt
Your Writing Curriculum
Ch. 5 Self Assessment Checklists: The What, the Why, and the How
Ch. 6 Tracking Data: On-the-Run and Formally
In the last half of August,
we’ll read and discuss Part 1 Ch. 7-9:
Ch. 7 Teaching Informed by the Learning
Progressions
Ch. 8 Supporting Transference across the
Content Areas
Ch. 9 Designing Reading-Writing Performance
Assessments
In the first part of
September, we’ll read and discuss Opinion/Argument
Writing.
In the last part of September,
we’ll read and discuss Information
Writing.
In the first part of
October, we’ll read and discuss Narrative
Writing and wrap up the book club before Lucy comes to CRA’s PDI on
Riverside on Oct. 23-24. Hope to see you there!
Why
wait? Start blogging today! Lynn Gurnee, CRA Past President
(Having trouble? Need more
info. for college credit? Email lynn@gurnee.org)