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They have no fear of writing. They will jump right in, even if it doesn't make sense. Students do not want to look back into the passage for evidence. They need help organizing thoughts. We are working on this using Writing to Text passages. Students write how they talk.

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Students have strengths in the area of verbally expressing their ideas and mapping/brainstorming ideas, but when having to JUST GET STARTED they become overwhelmed.

They also lean on first-person writing MOST times.

Several students have challenges using transition words to structure writing.

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We are working on reading passages more carefully so that students will pay attention to detail when answering questions about the passage. Students do not look back in the reading in order to support their answers. This is a big challenge for my third graders.

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My students are good at pulling supporting details from text for evidence and setting up an organizer.  We are working on some sentence frames and transition words to get information from the organizer to the paragraph/essay,

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Writing strengths overall would be content and details that they include, not evidence from text, but the content that they choose to include in their writing. A deficit would be properly citing evidence to support their content or opinion. In small group, I presented an anchor chart that helps to identify when we use quotation marks and citations. The chart displays quotations, paraphrasing and summarizing. I put strong emphasis on citing, since all three ways to give evidence require citations. Then, I modeled for them how to answer a question from our novel properly citing my source. Then they had to complete the next question in small group, using the chart as a guide. Today, they are writing an opinion essay based on two articles. Without me there, this will act as an opinion pretest to inform me about what areas I need to put more focus on.

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We are working on compare and contrasting articles. My students strengths are finding and recording information. Their   weaknesses are trying to separate the information gathered to place in separate paragraphs.

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Students have various strengths and deficits depending on the type of writing.

Narrative Writing- strengths: Students have a good grasp on when to include dialogue and descriptive details. weaknesses: breaking down the prompt to include all pieces

Argumentative- weaknesses: Students have a hard time taking "I" out of their writing. The also struggle when it comes to addressing the opposing side of the argument. Strengths: Finding relevant evidence to support their stance.

Informational/Explanatory- strengths: Students excel at picking out the main point.
weaknesses: They struggle with picking out relevant, applicable information, avoiding summarizing the text

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My students are capable of expressing their ideas, but lack the understanding of how to construct a paragraph. Many of the students write as if they are texting. It is difficult for some of the students to stick to the topic they are writing about.

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We have been practicing writing across the curriculum, as well as using the writing to text books to analyze writing and then model writing after the samples.

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They have multiple writing errors, but we are trying to alleviate that problem by proofreading paragraphs as our activator. Some students never complete their thoughts leaving you with fragments. On the other hand, I have a few students who use transitions, tier II vocabulary, and organization in their writing

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Currently, we are still working on incorporating strong narrative strategies and applying pov (1st is great; 3rd objective/omniscient is still a struggle) . I have started some rigorous instruction in applying figure language into narrative writing. I feel this technique will inherently teach students to be detailed and descriptive in their writing. This is our weakness.
On the other hand, our strength is informational writing, which we achieved by utilizing the paragraph precis strategy to create objective summaries of what we have read. I also incorporated adding textual evidence to this type of writing to make it more analytical. This has been a great strategy and we have seen good growth in this standard.

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Most of my students have a firm grasp on narrative writing. Most of them understand the various narrative writing techniques that they can use when responding to a narrative prompt because of the time that has been spent on narrative writing. My students also have a general idea of what argumentative writing entails. They have completed an argumentative writing assignment; however, I know that more time needs to be spent focusing on argumentative writing as well as informative/explanatory writing.