Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
- English Language Arts and Reading
- Grade 6
- Composition
compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft;
A student expectation is directly related to the knowledge and skills statement, is more specific about how students demonstrate their learning, and always begins with a verb. Student expectations are further broken down into their component parts, often referred to as “breakouts.”
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Task students with comparing a literary text from their writing portfolios against a rubric or checklist of genre characteristics. After analyzing the piece of writing, have students make revisions to improve the selection.
This assessment requires students to apply knowledge of the characteristics and craft of literary texts. This knowledge is acquired and developed through practice and experience reading and analyzing a variety of literary forms.
Wong, R., M. F., & Hew, K. F. (2010). The impact of blogging and scaffolding on primary school pupils' narrative writing: a case study. International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 5(2), 1+. Retrieved from https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A237942343/PROF?u=tea&sid=PROF&xid=9e8330dd
Summary: This study looks at improvements in grade 5 students' writing through the use of blogs. The students used blogs to plan and draft their narratives and to comment on their peers' narratives. Teachers incorporated scaffolded teacher questions and peer revision within the blog format in order to help students improve. The blogs were fun for the students and provided them with an authentic writing format, although there was no statistically significant growth in the students narrative writing ability in terms of content generation. However, the short time frame of the study may have been an adverse factor in terms of output.