Graded Independent Writing Samples

We have sent home your child's Independent Wriring notebook to show you his/her progress in writing. You will find a rubric on the notebook's front cover that can be used as a guide to how the writng samples are graded. The graded samples have 4 grades. I & O stands for Ideas and Organization, C stands for Conventions, H & P for Handwriting and Presentation, and S for Spelling (see rubric). Students have started working on a Personal Word Walls, which are found on the back of each notebook. Our purpose is that each student will work (especially through homework assignments) with the words he/she has difficulty with. As time goes by, more words will be added to the Personal Word Wall. Next week we will add a Homophones and an Irregular Verb Guide to the Independent Writing Notebooks as well. These are all resources the students should use when they write independently in class. Please initial each one of the Independent Writing samples and the Rubric. We encourage that your child reads aloud his/her favorite wiritng samples to you. On Monday, we will be sending a Reading packet the students have been working on in class. Thank you very much!