We started the year off, writing. I don’t assess this early writing (which is a reader response paragraph) but I do make general observations about trends that I am seeing and then I share those observations with all of my students as “teaching points” to begin to move forward. The writing samples were OK — not particularly strong, but not too particularly weak, either — and the slide above indicates things I will be returning to early in the school year with them.
Peace (in the points),
Kevin