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1 Grade 2 First Prompt Narrative Writing an All About Me Story English/Language Arts Content Standards: 1.0 Writing Strategies 1.1 Group related ideas and maintain a consistent focus. 1.2 Create readable documents with legible handwriting. 1.4 Revise original drafts to improve sequence and provide more descriptive detail. 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) 2.1 Write brief narratives based on their experiences: a.move through a logical sequence of events. b. Describe the setting, characters, objects, and events in detail. Writing Situation All of us have had something special happen in our lives. It may have been a weekend in the mountains with our family, a sleep over at Grandma s, a day at Magic Mountain, or a birthday party in our backyard. These special times become memories we keep for a lifetime. When we share these memories with others, we get to relive those experiences. (Allow an opportunity for discussion.) Directions for Writing Write about a special experience you have ha d with someone that you would like to share with others. As you write your story, be sure to include where and with whom you had this experience. Add enough details to your story so all readers will be able to enjoy this experience with you. When you have finished writing, read your story over carefully to be sure that it tells the readers what you want them to know. Then be sure to go back and check your story for capitals, punctuation marks, and spelling. Writing and Convention Standards For this task, students will write an essay that will: a. describe an event using detail. b. move through logical sequence of events. c. maintain a consistent focus. d. use complete sentences. e. use capitals at the beginning of sentences and the pronoun I. f. use accurate spelling of frequently used words. g. use correct punctuation for sentence endings. Resources: Reading/Language Arts Framework for California Public Schools, pp Write Away: Lesson Plans and Assessments, pp. 2-5 Write Away Handbook, pp Write Away Program Guide: Reading-Writing Connection, p. 5
2 Grade 2 First Prompt Rubric Narrative An All About Me Story 4 Fully addresses the prompt. Is clearly organized in a logical sequence. Clearly groups related ideas and maintains a consistent focus. Has complete, coherent sentences that use a variety of patterns. Has effectiveness and variety of word choice. Has expressive language that describes the setting, others involved, objects, and events in detail. Has grade-level appropriate spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation; contains few, if any, errors that do not interfere with understanding the writing. Has legible handwriting with appropriate spacing. 3 Responds to the prompt. Is organized in a logical sequence. Groups related ideas and maintains a consistent focus. Has mainly complete sentences that use more than one pattern. Has some variety in word choice. Has some expressive language that describes the setting, others involved, objects, and events in detail. Has mainly grade-level appropriate spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation; contains some errors that do not interfere with understanding the writing. Has legible handwriting with appropriate spacing and most letters formed correctly. 2 Attempts to respond to the prompt. May lack a logical sequence of events. May lack grouping of ideas and/or consistent focus. May have incomplete or incoherent sentences that follow one sentence pattern. Vocabulary may be limited to basic sight words or grade-level appropriate sight words. Tells about the setting, others involved, objects, and events in detail. May contain many errors in spelling, grammar, capitalization, and/or punctuation that may interfere with understanding the writing. Handwriting is mostly legible, but reader needs assistance to understand the meaning.
3 1 May not respond to the prompt. (May be off topic.) Lacks a logical sequence of events. Randomly presents ideas and has no focus. Has mainly incomplete or incoherent sentences. Lacks the setting, others involved, objects, and events in detail. Vocabulary will be limited to basic sight words with no descriptive language. May contain frequent and numerous errors in spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation that interfere with the understanding of the writing. Handwriting may be illegible. BP Blank Paper
4 Grade 2 First Prompt Student Page Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Writing Situation All of us have had something special happen in our lives. It may have been a weekend in the mountains with our family, a sleep over at Grandma s, a day at Magic Mountain, or a birthday party in our backyard. These special times become memories we keep for a lifetime. When we share these memories with others, we get to relive those experiences. Directions for Writing Write about a special experience you have had with someone that you would like to share with others. As you write your story, be sure to include where and with whom you had this experience. Add enough details to your story so all readers will be able to enjoy this experience with you. When you have finished writing, read your story over carefully to be sure that it tells the readers what you want them to know. Then be sure to go back and check your story for capitals, punctuation marks, and spelling. Writing and Convention Standards For this task, you will write an essay that will: a. describe an event using detail. b. move through logical sequence of events. c. maintain a consistent focus. d. use complete sentences. e. use capitals at the beginning of sentence and the pronoun I. f. use accurate spelling of frequently used words. g. use correct punctuation for sentence endings.
5 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 4 high Characteristics that make the paper a high 4: a. Focuses on the prompt. b. Complete coherent sentence with supporting details in logical sequence, c. Expressive language that describes setting, others involved, and objects. d. Grade level appropriate spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. e. Uses outstanding descriptives and sensory words. f. Summarize sentence at end of story. g. Uses a title to give the reader an understanding of what the story will be about.. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Providing paragraph instruction to start the expansion of ideas. b. Modeling how to add details to story. Teacher Notes:
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7 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 4 anchor Characteristics that make the paper an anchor 4: a. Coherent sentences with supporting details that describe in a logical sequence. b. Expressive language that describes the setting and others involved. c. Legible writing with appropriate spacing. d. Stays on topic.. e. Great use of description of what they saw on the trip to Sea World. f. Sequence of event was in a logical order. From morning until night. g. Inconsistent use of capitals. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Teaching the student capitalization of proper nouns. b. Modeling a variety of sentence patterns. Teacher Notes:
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11 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 4 low Characteristics that make the paper a low 4: a. Focuses on the prompt. b. Grade level appropriate spelling and capitalization.. c. Legible writing with appropriate spacing. d. Coherent sentences with supporting details. e. Overuse of then and there. f. Sequence of events is placed in a logical order. g. Great use of commas. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Modeling a variety of sentence patterns. b. Teaching the student to use more descriptive words and ideas. c. Modeling how to expand main events. Teacher Notes:
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14 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 3 high Characteristics that make the paper a high 3: a. Contains information about the setting, others involved, and objects. b. Variety of word choice. c. Grade level appropriate capitalization and punctuation. d. Misspells grade-level appropriate words. e. Appeals to the senses (watching the water, blow my hair.) f. Spells unknown words phonetically (ocean = oshin). g. Punctuation commas between names of people involved. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Developing ideas to better describe the situations and settings. (Example: what else did they see while standing on the docks?) b. Teaching the student the use of commas between names. Teacher Notes:
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16 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 3 anchor Characteristics that make the paper an anchor 3: a. Responds to the prompt. b. Variety of word choice. c. Grade level appropriate capitalization, punctuation, and sight words. d. Legible writing with appropriate spacing. e. Student has outstanding spelling. f. Use of commas, consistent punctuation and capitalization throughout the story. g. Lack of details to expand on student s experience. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Demonstrating the use of descriptive language/words to help build ideas and describe the experience more thoroughly. b. Modeling a variety of sentence patterns. Teacher Notes:
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18 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 3 low Characteristics that make the paper a low 3: a. Responds to the prompt. b. Contains setting, other involved (his dad), objects (surfboard). c. More than one sentence pattern. d. Good capitalization and punctuation. e. Has a logical story sequence. f. Spelling and spacing of writing is inconsistent. g. Lacks story content and descriptive detail. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Teaching the student how to organize a paragraph. b. Demonstrating how to add more detail to writing. Teacher Notes:
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20 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 2 high Characteristics that make the paper a high 2: a. Tells of a special experience attempts the prompt. b. Random capitalization and punctuation. c. Uses basic sightwords. d. Handwriting legible. e. Well-written paragraph with an indentation. f. Phonetic spelling and closing statement, it was fun I like desneland, to tie the paragraph together. g. Overuse of and which caused the story to be a long, run on sentence. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Teaching capitalization and punctuation by reviewing sentence structure. b. Teaching the student how to use a word wall. c. Providing spelling instruction and teach spelling patterns. Teacher Notes:
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22 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 2 anchor Characteristics that make the paper an anchor 2: a. Tells about an experience of the writer. b. Uses random capitalization and punctuation. c. Contains incomplete sentences due to the placement of punctuation marks. d. Lacks grouping of ideas and a consistent focus. e. Handwriting and spacing is clear and legible. f. Writer put some detail into their special experience. g. Story does not follow a logical sequence. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Providing lessons on basic grammar spelling, punctuation, verb/noun agreement. b. Demonstrating the use of story organizers for sequencing of ideas and providing appropriate details. Teacher Notes:
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25 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 2 low Characteristics that make the paper a low 2: a. Attempts the prompt but does stray from the topic. b. Contains random capitalization and punctuation. c. Handwriting is difficult to read. d. Uses incoherent and incomplete sentences. e. Uses a variety of sentence patterns. f. Student strays from the topic. g. Lacks grouping of ideas with an inconsistent focus. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Demonstrating finger spacing between words. b. Proving instruction on sentence structure. c. Sequencing of related events: beginning, middle, and end details. Teacher Notes:
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27 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 1 high Characteristics that make the paper a high 1: a. Uses inventive spellings of frequently used sight words. b. Contains random, unrelated words. c. Random capitalization and punctuation. d. Very limited descriptive language. e. Handwriting is legible. f. Good inventive spelling of unknown words. g. Story contains one long, run on sentence that does not follow a logical sequence. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Instructing how to write in complete thoughts. (Next step is to build complete thoughts/complete sentences.) b. Teaching sentence structure for capitalization and punctuation. Teacher Notes:
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29 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 1 anchor Characteristics that make the paper an anchor 1: a. Does not respond to prompt. b. Has incomplete or incoherent sentences. c. Contains random, unrelated thoughts. d. Contains random capitalization and punctuation. e. Has legible handwriting. f. Contains frequent spelling errors. g. Interpretation of writing is necessary. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Teaching the student to use period or end marks at the end of a sentence. b. Modeling the use of capitals at the beginning of a sentence. c. Using shared writing to demonstrate how to put thoughts into words. Teacher Notes:
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31 District Writing Sample Scoring Rationale First Prompt, Second Grade Narrative Writing an All About Me Story Rubric Score Point: 1 low Characteristics that make the paper a low 1: a. Does not respond to prompt. b. Contains random capitalization. c. Uses inventive spelling. d. No descriptive language. e. Limited sight words use and punctuation. f. Interpretation of words is necessary to formulate a logical meeting g. Handwriting is legible but could be improved. Additional instructional steps for the writer s growth would include: a. Teaching the student high frequency words. b. Providing shared writing experience to show the student how to put thought on paper. c. Publishing student writing frequently to build writing vocabulary. Teacher Notes:
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