ABSTRACT
Response strategies are techniques that teachers use to communicate the grades they have arrived at by using one of the approaches in Chapter 4. There is no hard-and-fast pairing of particular response strategies with particular grading approaches: a student conference may be centered around a primarytrait assessment of the piece of writing, an assignment-generated rubric, or a holistic anchor paper, for example. Three common ways of responding to student writing are with oral responses, with written responses, and with grades without comments. While these ways of responding are very different in how they communicate, all of them can be useful at one time or another.
