September Unit: A Quick Essay for Assessing Writers' Assets

What writing assets are your students bringing with them as the year begins? This quick mini-unit will help you find out!

Happy New Year, teacher friends. I hope your summer has been full of joy and rest. Thank you for coming back for another year.

Regardless of what my curriculum or pacing guide says, one of my first jobs when students walk into my classroom at the beginning of the year is to assess what they can already do on their own. Sometimes I find out I need to “g…