Reflection:
For the February progress monitoring in the Student Growth Tracker, students were asked to write about their goals for kindergarten. I rated my students' writing for this submission using the criteria in our End-of-Year SLO rubric (found on the SLO homepage). Currently, I still have nearly half of my students rating below or well below level, with the rest meeting the typical standard, which for EOY is to be writing 2-3 sentences. The majority of my students who fell into the below category are continuing to write only writing one sentence, and so I am concentrating on setting goals with these students to add more details to their writing, and to expand their thinking to create multiple sentences. For my students who are in the well below category, I am working on using sight words and decoding skills to form at least one complete sentence independently. However, as evidenced in the tracker, I do already have students who have reached the typical category, meaning they are already writing 2-3 sentences on a topic, and for these students my goal is for them to start developing their ideas more fully into paragraph form, adding further details and creating more varied sentence formats (i.e. not all sentences beginning with "I like to," etc.).
For the February progress monitoring in the Student Growth Tracker, students were asked to write about their goals for kindergarten. I rated my students' writing for this submission using the criteria in our End-of-Year SLO rubric (found on the SLO homepage). Currently, I still have nearly half of my students rating below or well below level, with the rest meeting the typical standard, which for EOY is to be writing 2-3 sentences. The majority of my students who fell into the below category are continuing to write only writing one sentence, and so I am concentrating on setting goals with these students to add more details to their writing, and to expand their thinking to create multiple sentences. For my students who are in the well below category, I am working on using sight words and decoding skills to form at least one complete sentence independently. However, as evidenced in the tracker, I do already have students who have reached the typical category, meaning they are already writing 2-3 sentences on a topic, and for these students my goal is for them to start developing their ideas more fully into paragraph form, adding further details and creating more varied sentence formats (i.e. not all sentences beginning with "I like to," etc.).