Self Assessing Our Writing

This week we gathered together to review the writing skills we have been practicing to date. We created a rubric of what good writers should include in their narratives. 

Our rubric includes: 

• Choose one small moment to write about
• Write a beginning that states who, what, when, where
• Use transition words (first, next, after that...)
• Write an ending with a feeling
• Use spaces
• Use lowercase letters
• Use punctuation
• Use capital letters for names and the beginning of sentences

The children self assess with this rubric as they finish a narrative. Then I will meet with the children as they explain how they met each goal. They LOVE seeing themselves as authors!!