Lit Review Article #2

I. Title: In the Zone: Writing Literacy Assessments

II. Author: Brenda Power, Kelly Chandler

III. Author's Purpose for Writing:

Call for more narrative assessment of student writing. What is the Zone of Proximal Development?

IV. What are the points made in the review of the literature? Do they support the need for the study?

1. The need for more narrative assessments of student progress in reading.

2. Detailed descriptions of reading growth

V. Author's Inquiry Question/s

1. How do teachers develop their writing skills?

2. How does the quality of narrative writing translate into content?

3. What are some strategies for writing better narrative?

VI. Author's Methodology

They wrote the article through the ecotones methodology
A. Who is being studied? Reading teachers
B. Over what length of time? 1999
C. What data is being collected Anecdotal information
D. How is it being analyzed Through
E. Any other interesting or pertinent data

VII. How the author collected information,
Working one-on-one with students and then parent inclusion

VIII. What the Author Discovered or Conclusions/Implications
“In the zone of each child’s learning though just a couple strong examples and anecdotes. By finding that zone of each child’s learning, parents can see most vividly what their child knows and what they need to learn next.”