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Chapter 1 of Best Practices in Writing Instruction was interesting to me. I never really realized that there were such huge gaps in writing performance. I mean, you remember which writing classes you didn't like in school and which ones took you off to other places and really fostered your abilities, but to hear of classrooms where children's work is not displayed or they are not encouraged to improve on their writing is ridiculous!! I work with kindergarteners and we expect them to improve all of the time. We go back with "dictionary" pens and correct spelling and we make sure we capitalize in the write places and use correct pucntuation. To think that this is not happening elsewhere is a bit scary.