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Writing Workshop, Part 3: A Reflection
ByDana Huff October 29, 2013October 30, 2013

Four students in each of my English classes have had what Ron Berger describes as an “in-depth” critique. I have graded some of those essays, and I can see a great deal of improvement. In some cases, I believe the student’s essay earned a full letter grade higher because of the editing and revision. Obviously,…

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Writing Workshop, Part 2
ByDana Huff October 10, 2013October 29, 2014

In my previous post about Writing Workshop, I explained what an In-Depth Critique looks like in my class. Logistics and tools may be a concern, especially for teachers with a large number of students. My school has Google Apps for Education, but as we do not use the Gmail feature, Google Docs/Drive is probably the…

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