““Even today it’s not uncommon to find teachers who believe that if a child can’t take a pen in hand and write an essay on a piece of paper, then he or she is not really a writer. What the CCSS is telling us is that this isn’t true. If a student can organize her thoughts in a meaningful way and dictate them into a machine or to another human being, she is a writer and should officially be recognized as such.””
![“...one of the main purposes of our assesment is to find evidence of the children using these ideas to make decisions about their writing work each day, catching them in the act [of writing].” quote by Katie Wood Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/17a/katie-wood-ray-194454_pg120_one-of-the-main-purposes-of-our-assesmen_2481158.jpg)
