The main point that I have learned by assessing student's writing is to not judge a book by its cover. When looking at the three samples I immediately thought that Chelsea's was the best. When taking a closer I began to realize that hers looked the best because she was not taking any risks. While looking at the other two samples there was more sentence varitety and these two students were using some multi syllable words. I believe that this was important for me to learn because I would have spent time analyzing the hand writting and not the content of the writing. Know that I am aware that neatness is not all that goes into writing I will be able to adequetly assess student's work. It was also helpful to have a better understanding of the stages indiciating what type of spelling mistake it was. This brings me back to last semester and the running records. Going through this whole process will definatley help me with any future writing assessments that I will have to complete.
I found the handout that about the different types of sentences to be extremely helpful. By looking at this sheet I was able to realize that Chelsea had no change in her sentences. The other two students were able to vary their sentences by not only using simple sentences but also useing compound sentences. Scott was also able to use one complex sentence. With all of this information I will be able to better judge my student's writing.
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I like how you compared writing evaluation to "never judge a book by its cover." It's sooo true! In class when looking at those writing samples, I really did judge all of the writing without reading them. Just like you, I thought Chelsea's would be the best just based on her neatness and word spelling. You bring up great points on how its important to look beyond the handwriting and instead look at the contentg of the writing itself. I really think since class, we have developed a greater knowledge of assessing students handwriting and this will help us so much when we are doing Tuesday Experience, Student Teaching, and teaching in general. Thank-you for reminding us of all the bias' we shouldn't have when evaluating students' writing!
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