Table 1

Student Name

Johnny- 8 years old, ELL, Boy

Bradly - 8 years old, ELL, Boy

Blair- 8 years old, girl, Caucasian

Lacey- 7 years old, Ell, girl

Lesli- 7 years old, girl, Caucasian,

Megan - 8 years old, girl, Caucasian

Writing Strength

Writing Weakness

Use variety of writing strategies

Writing legible

Uses details, transition words, and interesting

beginnings in his writing.

Beginning, middle and end.

Uses capitals, spaces, and neat handwriting.

Working on adding more length to his writing.

Using details in his writing.

Using transitions between thoughts.

A strong writer who takes great interest in her

writing.

Work on having a cohesive piece of writing and

staying on topic.

Confident in her abilities.

Work on transition words and making sure her

writing fits together.

Needs strategies to use for spelling and phonics.

Includes many details in her writing.

She includes interesting beginning, middle, and

endings to her story.

A passionate writer who has many ideas.

Works hard to apply the concept I am teaching in

her own writing.

Struggles with making her handwriting legible and

her ending to make sure it makes sense.

Is working on strategies to spell correctly and

forming neat sentences so they are concise.

Struggles with generating ideas.

Finds the task of writing very difficult and lacks

confidence in herself as a writer.

Needs to stretch her writing with details.

Lacks confidence and needs much support to

complete an assignment.

Has good ideas but it can be hard to get them on

paper sometimes.

- Working on using writing techniques such as transition

words and more details to stretch her thoughts.