Writing

= **[]Writing** =

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[] || 3-4 || This is a rubric that can be used to determine a student's proficiency in the following writing areas: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. || This rubric is adapted from //Six Traits Writing// by Ruth Cullum. || [] || 4th + || This link provides your students with a website used to electronically assist you in writing your own story. Story Making Machine can be used for classroom story-writing assignments. Include the title, author's first name and grade, or add a picture. If you want to reinforce target sounds for your students on articulation, you can have specific target sounds highlighted, helping them remember to use good speech when reading a story out loud. || A fun approach to writing and reading stories. It may even catch the interest of students who show no interest in writing. You can also print your finished product || @http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/ || K-12 || This website provides tons of student interactives to use with your students in areas ranging from organizing & summarizing, writing poetry, and writing & publishing. The student interactives are fun and engaging and will get students exciting about the writing process at any age! || The website also provides lesson plans, calendar activities, and printouts to use in your classroom as well. || @http://www.middleweb.com/ReadWrkshp/RWdownld/MvaleRubric.pdf || K-5 || This is a rubric that can be used by a student to evaluate their own writing in the areas of: ideas & content, word choice, conventions, organization, voice, and sentence fluency. || This rubric is used in an elementary school that uses the //Six Traits of Writing//. || [] || 3-8 || This is an editing checklist for self and peer editing. It is a self assessment tool to help students with their writing. ||  ||
 * ** Student **
 * Name ** || ** Assessment ** || **Grade** || ** Strategy ** || ** Comments ** ||
 * Daniel Brant || Third/Fourth Grade Writing Rubric
 * Crystal Doyle || [[file:Accordion paragraph template.doc]] || 5-8 || This is a outline template to help students write a paragraph with supporting details for essay writing. It uses color codes to help them remember to STOP and explain. Helps to prevent "laundry list" writing. ||  ||
 * Kelly Hendrick || http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm || K-12 || This is a story starter machine. The students will have a blast watching it come up with a silly story starter and the teacher can use it as a great way to motivate student writing at any grade level. || From the Scholastic website ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [|http://www.edhelper.com] || K-12 || This website provides a variety of printables that you can create to add to lessons you currently work on. If you have a lesson regarding a topic or holiday you could find materials to enhance your students understanding of the content. || This site is super easy to use and has a huge variety of lessons and materials. ||
 * Jessica Shuler || Story Writing Machine
 * Melissa Jasmund || ReadWriteThink - Student Interactives
 * Melissa Jasmund || Elementary Student Friendly Writing Rubric
 * Rebecca Setera || ReadWriteThink- Printout (from web-site)
 * Andrea Ursitti || [] || All || This site offers a plethora of rubrics for all reading and language arts components but it is especially detailed with writing rubrics. You can utilize the rubric as an initial assessment tool. It can be used to help focus skill building and then as a final assessment tool. || This site is awesome. It has almost 90 rubrics and is a wealth of knowledge. Just scroll top to bottom! ||  ||
 * Jacqueline Sosin || [] || k-2 || Quick assessment that asseses basic writing skills like orientation, letter formation, size, and spacing. ||  ||
 * Sarah Reis || http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail/?id=35597 || 6-12 || This is a free assessment you can download to assess your student writing assignments. || The scholastic site also has other free resources to print off for different grades. ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || Learning for Success || K-12 || This is a writing program that builds on itself starting with a story map and building "cabins" until the end-product of a letter, paper, etc. || This is derived from montessori schools ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || [] || K-6 || Strategies such as a "moveable alphabet" for writing. ||  ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || Brigance Inventory of Basic Skills || K-12 ||  || Writing assessment for grades K-12 used in special education ||
 * Sarah Kenyon || [] || K-12 || This site has tons of assessment checklists and lots of ideas for best practices for teaching writing. It explains what is best practice and what is not. || Checklists for tons of different writing skills. ||