Documents

Argument Writing This is Julie's original Simple Constructed Response scoring guide revised Feb 26-March 3 2013 to reflect Marzano's new scale language as well as the expanded development of argument writing in the last third of 7th grade as different from the more simplistic Constructed Response writing we practice to help be ready for NECAPs. Close Reading/Annotating Text

Models for Annotating Informational Text:
Justification for Annotating: Observations made while Julie scribed for NECAP testing Fall 2011:

BOOKMARKS



Pretesting

Unit: House Plans and Smartboard File

Scoring Guide: Introduction to and Annotating for Literary Devices notebook Glossary Lit Devices:

Models for Guided Practice with Formative Comprehension Assessments

Poetry

Short Stories, etc. for Differentiated Practice

Vocabulary

Theme

NECAP Prep

Fluency This notebook is really named Fluency Practice with Sensory Detail/Imagery. It connects fluency writing in writer's notebooks with the sensory detail piece that is so important in Ideas and Content - to kill two birds with one stone, as it were! So far, it contains the smell lesson - it will also contain the Observation Guide lesson (Alyssa's turkey model) and a taste lesson (marshmellows for guided practice: the tasting/noticing, filling out the Observation guide with the sensory details we noticed, and the actual written piece embedding or incorporating the prewriting detail). These last two will help us segue kids into actually USING their prewriting in mini pieces of creative writing. I will include some slides that very deliberately show kids how to embed their sensory details effectively. We can then move into Equipment, the Holding Breath lesson, Green Hat, etc. and have formative scores for all these. When it is complete, I will take out all these words.

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Memoir



Use this prewriting tool to help kids access the "internal thinking" that you want them to weave into their memoirs. Have kids adapt the tag lines as they wish, and of course, they don't have to write about all of them.

Personal Narrative This is a instructional move that allows kids to practice scoring leads with the same scoring guide we are using on their own PNs. Julie did with partners with Gr 7, 2011. These are 6 different leads to help your kids play around with starting their PN or memoir. FOR 2011/2012: Julie found her seventh graders knew almost nothing about dialogue. They did not know what a speaker tag/tag line was, and they needed more BK in general in order to do this lesson. Next year, weave in a study of dialogue sooner, like with short stories, and have kids practice lots more BEFORE they get to their PNs.

Sorry I don't know how to rename this file: it should say Ideas and Content Narrative Braid. It contains the friendship bracelet "hook", and a second lesson on leads. Use with 7th and 8th grade 2011 and perhaps review with 8th grade 2011/2012 since they will have already had it.

Voice This is the scoring guide

Inference This is the "complex text" that is on the Constructed Response webinar from the state ELA folks.

Fixing our annotations

Six Trait Scoring Guides

Sentence Fluency

Ideas and Content This is a document that goes with the SDT Practice nb - it is a hard copy of the "Grandmother" SDT piece from page 5.

This is a notebook on scoring-sorry for the funny name. ATTENTION: The updated version of this nb is now at the top of this section, called IdeasContent ScoringSnakePelletGun

Short Stories I used Yertle for assessing theme in 7th grade March 2011. I used Littlest Knight as a second practice for theme CR after Yertle.

The Giver



Persuasive Start on Slide 12 for NECAP Personal Persuasive Essay practice. As of now there are slides with "reporting out" from Julie's 8-1 class - you should delete those slides. Cake without directions built in

Use as a model, and to compare with argument/analysis

Lit Circles

TKM http://www.swisseduc.ch/english [|TKM Survival Guide]



Roll of Thunder/Jim Crow www.tpet.com Login: jcarter65@myfairpoint.net Password: warthog

Scoring Guides and Powergrade Assignments Six Traits

Writing Fluency

Constructed Response Here is the formative assignment explanation for Powergrade, for both

Writing and

reading. In 2010/2011, use with both

7th and 8th grade.

In 2011/2012, use with 7th grade only, as 8th

grade will have already done the assignment.

Story Elements Personal Narrative Memoir

Opening School/Locker Posters (with wordle activity)

Works In Progress DOES THIS LOOK OK WITH YOU - ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR CHANGE? Yearly Syllabi: P.N. stuff Alyssa has found

Short Story and Decisions