The dog ate my NAEP blog (not really)

The NAEP article we read early on in the class discussed Process Writing and shared some amazing statistics about how students benefit from pre-writing and writing more than one draft. My favorite quote is, "Students of teachers who always encourage particular elements of process writing, such as planning and defining purpose and audience, were found to be generally better writers than students of teachers who reportedly never encourage these activities" thus underpinning many of the other articles we have read in class. Yest another reason for using Writer's workshop this fall. Some solid stats for administrators and parents as well.