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I actually got this from Lance, a latin teacher who posted this material in the comments section of a thread. I translated it for my French Level 1 and 2 classes.
aaaaaaand original credit for the analysis goes to Bob Patrick, and Free Write for Scott Benedict 🙂
I mentioned them in my blog post when I posted the materials, yet forgot to add the source like I did on others (that way if they were further adapted we’d still know the original mastermind). My bad, Steven et al., but fixed now.
BTW, that rubric, “Expression” was one of the first iterations of dabbling with Standards in the classroom (along with Comprehension, Pronunciation, and, yep, Grammar).
I have since moved on to just one Standard in a new grading system, which Ben posted awhile back, but that Expression rubric fits well on individual assignments where language production is involved.
I’m looking for advice on showing my students’ growth in writing. I am required to do writing growth portfolios for my level 2 high school students. I was thinking about doing 5 minute quick writes periodically throughout the trimester, and showing a growth in the amount of words they are able to write. I am required to have a “growth goal” and am not sure what to aim for. Does anyone have advice for showing growth in writing via word counts? Since these are level 2 students, they all have different backgrounds. It’s easy to show growth for level 1, but level 2 is more difficult because many are improving the quality of their writing. Any thoughts? Thanks!!
This one is tough. Hopefully you can adjust your growth goal at a mid-year check-in, but there’s a good chance not all of your students will meet the targets regardless of what you set. Just document growth and that should count. I’d say take an average of the first three timed writes, and have categories for goals, then take the last three to see if they’ve met the goals.
Students will increase their word count as follows:
from <50 to at least 50
from 50-70 to at least 80
from 70-100 to at least 120
from 100+ to 20% more
Those are completely arbitrary, just an example of what you could do.
Here’s a post with a link to some new paper I made. I can’t believe I didn’t see it before, but there’s no reason to give Novice learners a huge sheet of paper they won’t fill up:
http://magisterp.com/2015/12/08/tiny-fluency-writes/