Dear Parents,
This week the students will bring home their first formally graded writing work. While the students write everyday, they only have one, formal, long-term project per month. September's project was writing informational paragraphs about patriotic symbols we researched as a class. Several students went on to create colorful flyers, using their opinions and reasoning to convince Mr. Jameson to go on vacation to their favorite patriotic symbol. He actually looked at each flyer and wrote the class a detailed reply.
The new Language Arts Common Core focuses heavily on improving writing, especially in these three genres: informative writing, opinion writing, and narrative writing. This type of rubric will be used to score all long-term writing projects. It includes all of the writing skills that students should master by the end of third grade. However, students will only be graded on skills that have been explicitly taught and practiced in class. Using the same rubric and focusing on three main writing genres will clearly show the children's progress throughout the year. This first score is a starting place for each student - the progress they make over time is the most important thing I will be looking at. Feel free to bring any questions, comments or concerns about writing to parent-teacher conferences. I have thoroughly enjoyed going through their first writing project. They worked very hard over a period of 2-3 weeks. I hope you enjoy their successes, as well!
Sincerely,
Ms. Mallett
This week the students will bring home their first formally graded writing work. While the students write everyday, they only have one, formal, long-term project per month. September's project was writing informational paragraphs about patriotic symbols we researched as a class. Several students went on to create colorful flyers, using their opinions and reasoning to convince Mr. Jameson to go on vacation to their favorite patriotic symbol. He actually looked at each flyer and wrote the class a detailed reply.
The new Language Arts Common Core focuses heavily on improving writing, especially in these three genres: informative writing, opinion writing, and narrative writing. This type of rubric will be used to score all long-term writing projects. It includes all of the writing skills that students should master by the end of third grade. However, students will only be graded on skills that have been explicitly taught and practiced in class. Using the same rubric and focusing on three main writing genres will clearly show the children's progress throughout the year. This first score is a starting place for each student - the progress they make over time is the most important thing I will be looking at. Feel free to bring any questions, comments or concerns about writing to parent-teacher conferences. I have thoroughly enjoyed going through their first writing project. They worked very hard over a period of 2-3 weeks. I hope you enjoy their successes, as well!
Sincerely,
Ms. Mallett
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