The Writing Well™ The Writing Well is a collection of black-line master sets of writing prompts with grade-level assessment. The black-line masters are distributed on CD-ROM in Adobe PDF format, so you can print as many copies of the worksheets as you need. (You’ll need Adobe Reader to open them.)
The Writing Well is licensed on a site-wide basis. This means that everyone in your building may use the contents of the Writing Well CD-ROM.
The Writing Well supports both Macintosh and Windows computers — you can mount the CD-ROM on either type of system; open and print its contents from either Macintosh or Windows (using Adobe Reader).
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Each sheet gives a prompt with a set of "helper" or vocabulary words that will help students start writing. The Teachers' Guide includes ideas for using individual work sheets in class.
What makes The Writing Well unique is that we include an evaluation sheet that you and your students can use to evaluate each writing assignment. Each evaluation sheet includes a set of evaluation descriptors so that both teacher and student can evaluate the piece and both can reflect on it.
The Writing Well is designed for teachers who want to make assessment part of every assignment, but are not sure how, or cannot afford the time to design assessments for every assignment. The Writing Well weaves assessment and instruction together.
Place the student's hand-written page into a paper portfolio or scan the piece into the student's Grady Profile electronic portfolio.
The Writing Well CD-ROM contains 240 black line masters. The masters are divided into three groups of 80 masters each, organized roughly by levels:
Please note that the levels are indicative only. In each level, the 80 masters are subdivided into eight thematic units of ten masters apiece:
This CD-ROM is only sold as a building-level site license. That means that purchasing one CD-ROM of The Writing Well entitles you and all of your colleagues in your building to use The Writing Well. You can make unlimited copies of any of the materials on the CD, as long as they are used within your building.