Writing Prompt Scoring

Our staff has completed a school wide scoring of a recent writing prompt. A writing prompt is when a student is asked to write about a given topic complete with quality organization, conventions, ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, and presentation (called the six writing traits.) Unlike when we were in school, teachers now look at various traits of quality writing not just proper spelling.

After teachers complete the scoring they will work in teams to use the data to make instructional decisions, provide interventions for struggling writers and share instructional strategies with other teachers. Our school completes a writing prompt three times per year to track progress of students and to teach each of the six writing traits listed above.

Pictured above is the writing cadre: Emily Auxier, Beth Gregory, Jennifer Duke and Amanda Saxton.