Assessment

We use //Formative Assessments// to guide instruction within the learning process, and //Summative Assessments// at the end of a unit or at benchmarks throughout a year.

The Continuums for Writing are //summative// assessments that we can use as pre and post-assessments around the three main text types of the Common Core State Standards: Narrative, Opinion/Argument, and Informational writing.

Here are links to the Continuums for writing from Columbia University's Teachers College: [|Narrative Continuum]

Here are some resources created from the above linked Continuums. Linda Fox created these as tools to use when conferring with writers.

Formative assessment in writing includes the practice of conferring. Here are some conferring forms you might use to guide your data collection and instruction.