Assessing Writing Through a Generous Lens

I don’t know about you, but nothing gives me more anxiety as a teacher than a huge pile of papers waiting to be graded. Well, that and field trips, but I digress.

Don’t get me wrong, I love to assign writing pieces to my 5th graders: short poems, long narratives, quick summaries, or detailed research reports. I love them all.

But I absolutely, positively HATE grading papers, so in this post, I’m going to explain how to assess writing through a generous lens and I promise, it will make your life so much easier.

Writing Types, Teacher's Life

Creating a Writing-Centric Classroom

This is my first official week of summer break, and I am beyond excited to finally delete all my alarms and sleep in for a change.

Of course, sleeping in for me means I’m still up between 6 a.m. – 7 a.m., but I’ll take it.

So what have I done so far?

I’ve added 3 new resources to my TpT store, started an Instagram account and this blog, and obsessed over my just-released state test scores.

Oh, and yesterday I met up with a teacher friend of mine at Starbucks to chat about teaching and writing. More specifically rethinking how we teach writing and grammar in our upper elementary classrooms.