An elementary school whose fourth-grade state language arts test results have declined annually for the previous three years has hired a school leader. The writing is the poorest part. The school principal and the teachers of the fourth grade decide to set aside time to go through and talk about student writing examples as a group to enhance writing teaching. Each instructor provides copies of student writing samples to share with the group. Which of the following steps should instructors focus on improving instruction with first?
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A
Identifying benchmark-quality writing samples to use as exemplars for next year’s instruction
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B
Conducting an analytical review of all writing samples to assign scores
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C
Reviewing all writing samples to identify common areas of weakness
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D
Targeting students in need of remediation based on the writing samples provided