Assessing Students with Poetry Writing across Content Areas: Humanizing Formative Assessment for Grades 6-12
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| Title: | Assessing Students with Poetry Writing across Content Areas: Humanizing Formative Assessment for Grades 6-12 |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Sarah J. Donovan, Kim Johnson, Anna J. Small Roseboro, Barbara Edler, Gayle Sands |
| Source: | Eye on Education. 2025. |
| Availability: | Eye on Education. Available from: Taylor & Francis Group. 7625 Empire Drive, Florence, KY 41042. Tel: 800-634-7064; Fax: 800-248-4724; e-mail: orders@taylorandfrancis.com; Web site: https://www.routledge.com/k-12 |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 246 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Intended Audience: | Teachers |
| Document Type: | Book Guides - Classroom - Teacher |
| Education Level: | Elementary Education Grade 6 Intermediate Grades Middle Schools Grade 7 Junior High Schools Secondary Education Grade 8 Grade 9 High Schools Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Writing (Composition), Alternative Assessment, Creativity |
| ISBN: | 978-1-03-295940-5 |
| Abstract: | "Assessing Students with Poetry Writing Across Content Areas" reimagines formative assessment by advocating for a dynamic, poetic approach that delves into students' meaning-making processes. It is a guide for teachers seeking innovative approaches to formative assessment, promoting a holistic, creative, reflective, and collaborative learning environment. It challenges the limitations of traditional worksheets and quizzes, urging educators to move beyond seeking restrictive answers and embrace students' texts as pathways to understanding. The authors put forward poetry as a vigorous tool and writing poetry as an act to foster deep learning across content areas. Practical examples of acrostic poems, haiku, and pantoum demonstrate the adaptability of poetic forms to diverse subjects. Through adaptable lesson plans that can be used across history, math, world languages, ELA, and science, the book encourages intentional poetic writing-to-learn activities and explores how poetry might present itself as a short, creative assessment tool that helps teachers see what their students know and can do while also offering them the space to make new meaning in their original poetry. This book is a key resource for in-service educators teaching grades 6-12. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Access URL: | https://www.routledge.com/Assessing-Students-with-Poetry-Writing-Across-Content-Areas-Humanizing-Formative-Assessment-for-Grades-6-12/Donovan-Johnson-Roseboro-Edler-Sands/p/book/9781032959405 |
| Accession Number: | ED675991 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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