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What’s Wrong with Holistic Rubrics?
Holistic rubrics are fine for quick overviews and are the staples of performance-based standardized tests, such as the SAT®; however, they serve little instructional purpose and…
How to Use the Computer to Grade Essays
Here's how one teacher began using the computer to grade student writing and developed a free download of 438 e-comments to automatically insert into student essays.
Analytical Rubrics
Analytical rubrics help teachers differentiate instruction, use progress monitoring, involve students, and provide a specific language of writing language instruction throughout the writing process.
Grammar Checkers for Teachers
It’s exhausting and time-consuming. So, naturally, teachers look for short-cuts that will save energy and time, but ones which will still give students what they need…
5 Reasons SSR Doesn’t Work
Essentially, SSR is based upon these assumptions: Reading is a skill which improves with practice. Students should be allowed to select their own books to read.…
How to Teach the Voiced and Unvoiced “th”
Teaching the voiced and unvoiced consonant digraphs in the context of beginning and remedial reading instruction can be tricky. Speech therapists and ESL teachers insist that…
Computer-Graded Essays
Computer-gradingof student writing is being actively marketed to K-12 schools and universities. The NCTE and CCCC are adamantly against this trend. But, is there a middle…
California Common Core Language Standards
Teachers in California and Massachusetts are asking plenty of questions. For example, how do the Common Core State Standards differ from those of their states. How…