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.
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Everyday as a writing interventionist, my job is to work through this wonderfully-challenging and often-frustrating subject with students.
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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.
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This page contains this work - this unquantifiable, under-evaluated, and challenging work.
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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.