Writing Weaknesses

At team meeting this week we looked at writing as a whole team. We discussed weaknesses within our writing assessment results.
Overall weaknesses are - sentences, ideas, spelling, vocab, punctuation and editing.

In our class this term we have half an hour teacher aide support each day for writing. We are using our teacher aide to work firstly with our most independent students to help them to develop their ideas further while allowing us to give more time to our more needy children. When/if she finishes with these groups then she will do alphabet sound/sight word games and activities with our lower students who need some extra support.

The goals for our higher writers is to develop more detail and introduce a variety of sentence types. They need to work on using interesting vocabulary, checking their punctuation and begin to edit their work.

Our lower writers need to develop a better understanding of the difference between letters and words. They need to use spaces, lowercase/uppercase letters and punctuation correctly. They also need confidence to write more on their own.