For Elementary General Education and Special Education Teachers

Responding Differently to Writers and Writing

by Julie Jochum

This book will help the regular classroom teacher or the special education teacher to:

• understand authentic assessment as it applies to the writing process.
• assess and facilitate the writing responses of writers with a difference within both individual diagnostic events and general classroom experiences.
• understand effective ways to assist writers who are in any stage of writing development.
• respond to writers-in-process to encourage them to expand their writing development.
• analyze writing samples for critical developmental needs through an illustrated process.
• use metacognitive-oriented procedures for assisting writers' development in pre-writing, drafting, revision, and editing, including effective spelling techniques

Table of contents:

• Introduction
• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter One: Responding to authentic assessment: What are the keys to authentic assessment of writing by writers with a difference?
• Chapter Two: Responding to authentic assessment of the process
• Chapter Three: Responding to authentic assessment of the product
• Chapter Four: Different responses to writers and writing
• References