Writing effective report card comments [best strategies, tips, and lists of useful phrases that encourage children -- and save you time!

The best strategies, tips, and lists of useful phrases that encourage children—and save time!A highly practical round-up of teachers' best advice on writing thoughtful, effective report card comments. In their own words, teachers share strategies for: being honest and encouraging how to set student goals, building bridges with parents, how to handle a student that's failing, and more. Packed with helpful examples. This book offers time-saving tips from teachers on writing effective report card comments. The book presents the best strategies, tips, and lists of useful phrases that encourage children and lists words to avoid. It is a resource that will allow teachers to collect assessment information easily and to describe students' performances clearly and constructively. The book also gives concise advice on how to prompt parents to support learning at home. Following an introduction, the book's chapters are: (1) Report Cards in the Assessment Process; (2) Teachers' Philosophies about Teaching and Kids; (3) Methods for Assessing Students; (4) Tips for Writing Report Card Narratives; (5) Words and Phrases That Work; (6) What Do Parents Want?; (7) Strategies for Resolving Possible Problems; and (8) Guidelines, Formats, Schedules, and Tips. Contains a bibliography. (CR) At last, here is a practical book that gathers time-saving tips from teachers on writing effective report card comments. Packed with advice, this resource will help you collect assessment information easily and describe your students' performances clearly and constructively. You'll find handy lists of phrases that encourage children, words to avoid, and concise advice on how to prompt parents to support learning at home. From the moment students enter your classroom in the morning till long after they leave at the end of the day, you are evaluating their progress, both formally and informally.