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Unpacking and Understanding the Prompt
Reflecting on my own experience as a learner, when required to write an essay, the first thing I have learned was to paraphrase the prompt or the question before I start answering. It was only when I...
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Unpacking the Prompt – Bianca Cole
The essential challenge presented by my district’s interim writing assessment was this, Can my sophomore students demonstrate their ability to read multiple texts, seemingly on demand, and produce...
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Understanding the Prompt
When assessment time rolls around, teachers everywhere sweat bullets over whether or not their students will be successful. We have been conditioned to believe that our students’ strengths and...
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Writing on Demand
The Student Writing Survey revealed teachers assign timed on-demand essays least of all writing assignments. This may mean that we are not adequately preparing students for the on-demand essays they...
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Deconstructing the Prompt – Rosalba Salazar
After administering the Interim Assessment for Instructional Window 1 and looking at the data provided, an area we identified that needs to be addressed is, understanding and addressing the prompt....
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Importance of Timed Writing
In reviewing the student survey data, I noticed that timed on-demand essays were rarely assigned by teachers. According to the survey, timed on-demand essays were assigned only 1.4% of the time in the...
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