Communicating with parents is essential, rewarding, and usually helps students a great deal. However, writing paragraph reports as many as 5 or 6 times a year is – let’s be honest, teachers – something of a grind. If I weren’t a fast typist (silent thank you to Mrs. Brockman from 9th grade computer skills) I don’t know how I’d do them. Even typing that many words is rough, but typing intelligent, useful paragraphs that I’m proud of? That’s incredibly daunting, especially because I often can’t find the words I’m fishing for and end up staring at overly general reports. “Nice kid. Works hard. Pleasure to teach.” So I made myself the following giant list of adjectives to help jog my memory in describing a student’s work and personality, and hey, it might help you, too. (So far as I know, it’s the internet’s only such list that you don’t have to pay for.)