One
suggestion is to create an editable checklist in Microsoft Excel which
lists the names of individual students against the detailed
curriculum or performance criteria or your own scoring rubric, which you can then annotate once the student has performed the skill.
Of course, teachers will need to supplement this
list with other prompts to trigger other forms of writing (e.g., exposition, poetry); many such prompts can and should be derived from the
curriculum as well as students» personal experiences and interests (for
suggestions, see Fletcher, 2002; Heard, 1989; Portalupi & Fletcher, 2001; Young, 2002).