Purposeful Writing Assessment

When used as a diagnostic tool, assessments provide a window into students’ patterns of thinking and processing information, allowing teachers to target and differentiate their instruction to address weaknesses. Susan Koehler gives teachers of grades three through eight the convenient tools they need to conduct purposeful writing assessment based on multiple-choice practice within the three major areas of writing: focus and organization, style and composition, and conventions and mechanics. Each of the 15 skill sets has one assessment for pre-testing and one for determining student mastery of the specific skill. This valuable supplemental tool is complete with answer keys, re-teaching strategies, a bibliography of professional resources that address each skill set, and a complete cross-index of literature models. Use Purposeful Writing Assessment to: Inform, target, and differentiate your instruction before and after you explicitly teach writing; Choose literature models that demonstra