Writing+Tm+1+2010

Writing The students are given a lot of opportunity to write. Most days they are expected to write in their "Writing Journals". Most of the time this is an opportunity to get ideas down that build up in their brains and sometimes we are practicing a particular writing related learning skill. This term we have been focussing on moving from simple to more complex sentences and developing our vocabulary. Of course vocabulary is often picked up in reading, so mostly for this term, it has been a cross curricular activity picking vocabulary not that well understood in reading, working with the word and transfering the knowledge and skills to writing. The majority of the class is operating at Level 3 for Surface Features and L3 for Deep features and this is the expectation for Year 7 students. There are students in the class who are operating at L5 and these are our top students who are operating at Year 9 and 10 in their writing. The rubrics are very helpful in identifying next steps.

T1 Writing Goals 2010 T1 Rubric T1 Writing Sample 1 T1 Writing Sample 2