Assessing+Writing

= Assessing Early and Emergent Writing =

When assessing early and emergent writing, there are three things to look for: What does the writer know about letters words and sentences? Does the piece of writing have a meaning, does it convey an idea? Does the writing have left to right directionality? Does the writing then sweep down and return to the left? Are there spaces between words? Is there any punctuation used? Did revising ocur?
 * Written language
 * Ideas
 * Text conventions

By scoring the various writing elements, teachers are able to see what stage of development the student's writing is at.