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The Essential Skill of Writing

Join this comprehensive workshop to grasp the key traits of sentence fluency and conventions, enhance student scoring, and expertly evaluate writing. Learn to identify errors, improve punctuation, and ensure clarity in writing.

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The Essential Skill of Writing

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  1. The Essential Skill of Writing Sentence Fluency & Conventions For Content Area Teachers An In-Depth Training Session

  2. Goals for this Workshop Participants will • Understand the key components of the traits of Sentence Fluency and Conventions • Recognize student performance at different score levels for Sentence Fluency and Conventions • Develop expertise in scoring student writing for classroom and Essential Skills purposes in Sentence Fluency and Conventions

  3. Sentence Fluency

  4. Sentence Fluency • Is the writing fairly easy to read aloud? (Supply punctuation wherever natural) • Enough variety of: • sentence structures? • sentence beginnings? • sentence lengths?

  5. Sentence Fluency • Marking punctuation is scored under conventions. “Sense of sentence” shows when reading aloud. • Missing words can affect fluency • Inverted word order can affect fluency

  6. Let’s Review the Scoring Guide Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Sentence Fluency

  7. Let’s Score some Papers!

  8. Conventions

  9. Conventions Run-on sentences Spelling Capitalization Noun/verb agreement Fragments Quotation marks

  10. Conventions Analyze: • Kinds of errors • Significance of errors (refer to grade-level expectations in Skill Level Guidelines) • Proportion of errors relative to overall text length and complexity

  11. Conventions • Correct end-of-sentence punctuation? • Run-on sentences (none or very few) • Fragments (none or just a few effective ones) • Correct spelling of common words? (grade level appropriate) • Correct capitalization

  12. End of Sentence Punctuation

  13. Run-on Sentences

  14. Sentence Fragments

  15. Conventions

  16. Correct usage? 10th: subject-verb agreement • My brother is a nutritionist and my sisters are mathematicians. • Each of the girls sings well. • On the wall were several posters.

  17. Verb Tense: correct? consistent?

  18. Consistent Point of View

  19. Quotations, Apostrophes, etc. If dialogue present, correctly punctuated & paragraphed? • Use quotation marks [ “ ” ] to set off material that represents quoted or spoken language. • In the United States, periods and commas always go inside quotation marks regardless of logic. • Quotation marks used around words to give special effect or to indicate irony are usually unnecessary.

  20. Direct vs. Indirect Quotations • Mr. Johnson, who was working in his field that morning, said, "The alien spaceship appeared right before my own two eyes." • Mr. Johnson, a local farmer, reported last night that he saw an alien spaceship on his own property.

  21. Let’s Review the Scoring Guide Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Conventions

  22. Let’s Score some Papers!

  23. Resources to Practice Scoring • ODE High School Writing Samples: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=527 • OPEN Scoring Site: http://www.openc.k12.or.us/scoring/ • Clackamas ESD Writing Samples http://www.clackesd.k12.or.us/cie/writing.html

  24. Thank you for your attention!

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