Martial Artist - Informational/Opinion Writing
Grade 2
Feedback for Improvement
Broad Topic/Assignment: Learning something new can be exciting. Write to explain a time when you learned something new.
What worked:
Areas of instructional focus:
Feedback with Prescriptive Lesson:
Recognizing Genre and Organization: The student needs to recognize and identify how an informational/opinion piece is structured. By using these lessons, the student will build an awareness of the structure.
Once the foundation has been established, then move into the next set of skills.
Broad Yet Distinct Main Ideas/Reasons: The student needs to expand on main ideas using sentence variety and create main idea sentences that are clear to the reader. Creating separate paragraphs for each main idea would help the reader to understand the topic and clearly show the organizational structure.
Elaboration: Student needs direct instruction in how to elaborate on the simple list-like details through the use of the productive questions: What does it look like? Why is it important? Most of the details were simply stated.
Another important lesson for this student will be to identify the givens and variables in the task in order to create a workable pre-writing plan. In Section 6: Authentic Writing Tasks, Lesson 1 Identifying Givens and Variables, this student can practice planning so that the plan for this piece look like this:
Topic: Martial Artist
Main Idea #1: Kung Fu (Chinese)Trials/Ranks
Main Idea #2: Moves
Main Idea #3: Dojo (Training Facility)
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