Self Assessing our Own Writing

April/May 2014

Writing is difficult for children and some adults too!  Over the next few weeks our students will be self assessing their own writing.  We will be looking at penmanship, beginning middle ending of a story, story elements: such as characters, the setting, the problem of the story and the solution how the problem gets fixed. 

We will also be looking at our writing at the mechanics (punctuation), of a sentence, a capital letter in the correct spots, a noun and a verb in a complete sentence. (The subject and the predicate). We will be exploring these assessments to finalize a complete writing assignment through editing our own work.

Our First Writing Rubric will look very similar to this...

Level 5: Best Work Possible

·      Name is on project and written neatly.

·      Coloring is in the lines and nearly perfect.

·      Writing is neat with correct spacing.

·      Punctuation and Capitalization are used..

·      Illustrations are detailed, have background and at least 6-7 different colors.(Depending on age)

Level 4: Quality Work

·      Writing has good spacing and is mostly correct.

·      Name is written on the project.

·      Coloring could be neater and needs to be improved. There are white spaces or colors that seem out of place.

·      Writing could be better. It looks rushed and is missing letters and other conventions..

·      Illustrations are not complete. They need additions in details, backgrounds and maybe number of colors.

Level 3: Fair Work

·      Name is written on the project.

·      Coloring could be neater and needs to be improved. There are white spaces or colors that seem out of place.

·      Writing could be better. It looks rushed and is missing letters and other conventions..

·      Illustrations are not complete. They need additions in details, backgrounds and maybe number of colors. 

Level 2: Poor Work

·      Name may or may not be written on the project.

·      Coloring is minimal and not complete.

·      Writing is minimal and needs improvements in several areas.

·      Illustrations lack completion. 

Level 1-Unnacceptable

·      Name may or may not be written on the project.

·      Coloring is missing and not complete.

·      Writing is missing.

·      Illustrations are not complete.

·      This project is not finished.

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales are the topic of our reading this month. We have been reading many different types of Fairy Tales!

Our first fairy tale we read was the original Goldilocks and the Three Bears followed by 4  different types, "Fractured Fairytales" Goldilocks and the Three Bears books, which we found played close attention things that were the same in each story and the things that were different in each story. The we wrote about our Favorite Bears Story.

The First Goldilocks was...

The Second Goldilocks story was...

 The Third Goldilocks was 

The Fourth story we read was

And the Last Goldilocks story was  

*****Come check out our bulletin board outside our classroom to find out which Goldilocks was your child's favorite!!!*****