fifth+grade

Add classlist and then enter score for each writing trait and for the genre.



Benchmark Writing - Beginning of Year Prompt Write a personal narrative about an event you experienced in your neighborhood using ideas from the neighborhood map. Describe your event using details that are clear and interesting. first marking period rubric Poetry ||  ||  ||   ||  || Historical Fiction || [| historical fiction prezi] || ||   ||  || Cause and Effect || Jamestown || || Blood on the River by ||  || Position Paper || Valley Forge || || Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson || ||
 * Marking Period || Topic || Rubric || Mentor Text || Resources ||
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End of the 1 st Marking Period Genre
I think we were more successful moving poetry to the first marking period. Students really liked learning the different types of poetry and were enthusiastic about creating a book.

Next year, I know I need to spend more time on adjectives before attempting the diamante poem. Students also need a bit more time distinguishing verbs from the other parts of speech.

We really need to overhaul our rubric for this unit however. It doesn’t really fit poetry books. I created a “checklist” rubric to help score the books, but that still wasn’t enough to do justice to the scores.

I would like to add another type of poem to our list and spend more time on word choice. Our rubric does not lend itself to scoring the student papers.

I felt like I rushed the product a that the students didn't enjoy the work as much as they should have.

In the future I would like to have the students produce word lists that we would display.

I do feel doing poetry first does help the students lookd at words and parts of speech that a regular writing doesn't lend itself to as well. I would like to add another type of poem to our list and spend more time on word choice. Our rubric does not lend itself to scoring the student papers.

**Mentor texts that I can return to often to help students with the craft of writing (6 traits) are: **
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