"Lucy Calkins' groundbreaking performance assessments offer instructional tools to support continuous assessment, timely feedback, and clear goals tied to learning progressions that have been aligned with world-class standards ... [It] is ideal for writing workshop, but suitable for any writing instruction context or curriculum. This practical guide includes: Learning progressions for opinion/argument, information, and narrative writing, which map the specific benchmarks students will master as they move through each stage of development, PreK-9 ; On-demand writing prompts that support schoolwide performance assessment ; Student checklists, based on a grade-specific portion of the learning progressions, to help students set goals and integrate crucial self-assessment into their work ; Rubrics to support professional learning communities as they evaluate mastery and plan instruction within and across grade levels ; Student writing samples that illustrate different ways students have.