Responding One of the most important aspects of your work as a teacher will be the way you interact with students. One of the ways that you will interact with students most often will be through the responses you give them on their work. As you already know, the most effective responses are formative, offered while learners are engaged in an activity and have time and opportunity to use your response to affect the outcome of thier work. Writers deserve response. Our goal is to offer writers as much response as we can.
Writers are responsible for the success of their writing.
Use the prompts to provide response to writers. And if a writer asks a specific question about a specific challenge, respond to that too. Don't become the English teacher you feared. Focus your comments on the writing, on specific features of the writing. Give the kind of advice you would want to receive.