Writing: Snapshots and Captions
Writing is hard to quantify, hard to assess, and hard to learn. It's subjective, immensely variable in purpose, and time consuming.
Good writing doesn't happen overnight.
Everyday as a writing interventionist, my job is to work through this wonderfully-challenging and often-frustrating subject with students.
As I begin to really dive into this position as writing interventionist, I figured people would benefit from seeing the work that I do with students in this realm on a daily basis.
This page contains this work - this unquantifiable, under-evaluated, and challenging work.
The lessons that follow on these pages, while I did them with the particular grade level, can be applied to any grade level at your own design and discretion. You know your students best; these lessons are just what worked for mine.
The Initial Writing Challenge
When students first come to me for help in writing, I assess their writing through a writing activity encapsulating the trademarks of writing instruction: Ideas, Clarity, Fluency, Grammar, and Spelling.
Usually in that order.