Writing criteria

This week students wrote a letter to send home to family about what they see in the land in Nova Scotia. As this is the beginning of our study of the east coast, as well as the beginning of learning about descriptive writing, we expect that in a few weeks when they do their final copy and send it home that it will be improved.

This is the criteria that we are using to evaluate their writing (click on it to see it more clearly - for some reason it appears blurry at first glance): 

We have identified areas of growth for each child and will be targeting specific skills and strategies in the next few weeks. We will be meeting with the students to give them personalized feedback on their writing, and will be focussing our lessons and writing activities to support growth in each of these areas.

- descriptive writing that allows the reader to form a visual in their mind (not just patterned sentences in a list)

- correct spelling of high frequency words, or phonetic spelling when students do not know how to spell a word (e.g. waturmln is an example of how to phonetically spell "watermelon") 

- using capital letters and punctuation appropriately

We look forward to sharing this work with you soon!