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Analyzing Lucy's Writing

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In order to assess Lucy’s progress in writing, I analyzed a sample piece of her opinion writing worksheets. Each student in Mrs. McDonald’s kindergarten listened to Mrs. McDonald read them the book, “ The Mixed Up Alphabet” by Steve Metzger. The students were guided through a worksheet that outlined who to write to, what their opinion was, a reason why, and whom it was from. This writing piece was given during a single writing period, which consists of 30 minutes of individual work time. I was able to conference with Lucy during her writing process. She was able to tell me what her opinion was on the book they read and why. She was able to initially decide what she was writing without a prompt from me. To assess her writing, I collected the outlined sheet of her writing. Findings: At the end of this document, Lucy’s piece of …show more content…

She is able to represent letters for some sounds and spells words the way they sound. Some examples of this would be: “W for Why”, “Woz for Was”, and “Becuz for Because”. I was able to conference with Lucy once during this writing piece to help further her reasons why she loved the book. She only wrote down one reason, but she stated other reasons aloud, but thought she was complete with her writing piece. According to Routman’s text, “Writing Essentials”, teachers should not give the students answers while conference, but to help guide them. I believe that I helped Lucy come up with more reasons on her own, but she was unable to connect that she could use them to make her opinion letter stronger. Overall, the writing piece was complete and acceptable for a kindergarten class. Lucy is an average writer. Although Lucy should be given instruction on brainstorming multiple ideas of her own to support her opinions. She understands opinions, but lacks detail to support

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