Literacy- Exercise 3: Emergent Literacy
Directions In this exercise, you will analyze a student’s writing sample, describe the developmental characteristics of a student’s writing, and propose two developmentally appropriate teaching strategies to address an identified weakness or build upon an identified strength. You will be asked to respond to three prompts, the third of which has two parts. Criteria for Scoring To satisfy the highest level of the scoring rubric, your responses must provide clear, consistent, and convincing evidence of the following: -a thorough and accurate analysis of one area of strength and one area of weakness in a student writing sample, including examples to support your analysis; -a detailed description of the developmental characteristics of a writing sample; an insightful explanation of two developmentally appropriate and effective teaching strategies to further the student’s skills in writing; and -an appropriate rationale for strategies connected to the stated strength or weakness. Prompt (Student Written Sample- Assignment was to write about a field trip to the firehouse) Of the firehous we learned about fire men trucks and dog. It dog was white and black and big and nice. We saw an man slid on pole. He go fast and land on him feet. He go fast to truck an put on an jaket and boots. Fires are evrywhre and him keeps me safe.
Prompts 1. Analyze one area of strength and one area of weakness. Provide examples from the student writing sample to support your analysis. 2. Describe in detail the developmental characteristics of this writing sample. 3. (a) Explain two developmentally appropriate and effective instructional strategies to further the student’s skill in writing development. (b) Provide a rationale for how each of the two strategies is connected to the strength or weakness that you have identified.
Created by
Patrick Ledesma
, 2007
Prompts from
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
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