Put out by Vantage Learning MyAcess is a online writing program designed to provide students with instant feedback on prompt essay writing. It targets the write traits of learning skills I am still getting used to how to use it for my students. http://www.vantagelearning.com/ Tena
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Rowlett, Renita C <[email protected] > wrote: > Can you tell me more about My Access? > > Warm regards, > R. Carol Miller (Rowlett) > Citywide Specialist > Office of Reading & Language Arts > Medill Professional Teacher Center > GSR #80 > "Together, ordinary people can still do extrordinary things." > Barack Obama > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > lit-bounces+rcrowlett <lit-bounces%2Brcrowlett>=cps.k12.il.us@ > literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Amy Lesemann > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LIT] My Access positives and negatives > > There are good and bad parts to using My Access to teach writing. It will > score your student's writing for you, using the six most commonly used > traits of writing, and fairly accurately, in a sense. This is great if you > have 120 writing students and you really want them to write frequently and > get rapid feedback. If you move into the cpr lab for a couple of weeks and > have a few drafts for the kids to type in (quickly - they must have decent > keyboarding skills!), and then have them mull over the feedback they get, > and then revise their pieces and get final feedback, it can be really > handy. > > It's especially good for average to weak writers. But...and there's always > a > but... it can't handle your better writers who have really developed their > unique voices, which integrate sentence fragments (or the use of But...for > the effect!). They will get dinked and they will get frustrated! However, > if > they need to learn to write to a prompt under a time pressure, some of our > more creative souls sometimes need to learn how to rein it in a bit. My > 8th > grade daughter, a prize winning writer, was very frustrated by MyAccess, > but > also kept getting low-ish scores on her state tests on writing. It was > funny, but it wasn't, so she worked harder on MyAccess to figure out what > the faceless bureaucrats wanted, and was grimly victorious when she got all > 6's. It'd be nice if this wasn't the way of the world, but it is. She'll > have to write for her SAT's someday, so she might as well get the hang of > it > now. > > Hope this helps. Amy > > -- > Amy Lesemann, Reading Specialist and Director, Independent Learning Center > St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
