Pre-K
2 Students (A and B)
Assignment – Section 1 “Cat Care”
“Cat Care” was read to the class and reviewed the next day. Then a guest was invited to show and
demonstrate how she takes care of her pets. The children created a paper pet to take care of in the
classroom for a week. They kept a journal to explain how to care for their pet.
Strengths (High)
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Clear handwriting.
Labeled picture.
Pictures represent sentences.
Pictures look real.
Needs
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Use appropriate/correct colors.
Add more details to picture.
Assignment – Pet Care
Strengths – Medium
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Needs
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Can write some initial consonants.
Illustrates her words
Color.
Similar pictures on every page.
Label pictures.
Needs to be consistent.
Grade Level – Kindergarten
Assignment – Using a combination of drawing and writing compose an informative text about living
things. Students were asked to use 3 facts about an animal and draw an illustration. Assignment was
completed in two 30 minute sessions.
Imani -High
Strengths
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She wrote name and date.
Illustration included habitat
Edited her work
Used punctuation
Wrote complete sentences
Gave a detailed fact.
Needs
Proper verb tense.
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Understand plurals.
More detailed facts.
Grade Level – Kindergarten
Assignment – Using a combination of drawing and writing compose an informative text about living
things. Students were asked to use 3 facts about an animal and draw an illustration. Assignment was
completed in two 30 minute sessions.
Gabriela -Medium
Assignment – above
Strengths
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She named her animal.
She wrote 2 facts about her animal.
Her picture matches one fact.
Needs
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Needs to recall more facts.
Needs to illustrate more detail in her picture and reflect real life.
Grade Level – Kindergarten
Assignment – Using a combination of drawing and writing compose an informative text about living
things. Students were asked to use 3 facts about an animal and draw an illustration. Assignment was
completed in two 30 minute sessions.
Fernando - Low
Strengths
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Wrote the word snake correctly.
Wrote his name.
Attempted to draw snake (included eye, tongue, snake scales).
Needs
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Needs to write facts.
Needs labels.
Needs context for drawing (habitat).
FIRST GRADE
Assignment – Students researched about individual food groups. Students created “Did you know” facts
about their food. They wrote an introduction about their display board.
Strengths Jisell ad Nemiah - High
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Introduces topic
Explains what is going to happen
Provides factual information of a comprehended topic.
Needs
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Structure introduction paragraph.
Reread and edited own work.
Wrote more content specific facts.
FIRST GRADE
Assignment – Students engaged in books about the food groups. Student created an ideal dinner
placing food on “My Plate” and wrote about the choices made.
Strengths – Joshua - Low
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Uses vocabulary in discussion.
Matches food to correct food groups.
Uses model texts to model writing.
Needs – Low –
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Vary sentence structure.
Provide detailed reasons for choosing food.
FIRST GRADE
(Gennesy) - Medium
Grade Level – First Grade
Assignment – Students conducted research about how food travels from the farm to the table. They
wrote and illustrated the process of food growing and traveling to the supermarket table, by using
transitional words, supporting their writing with descriptions and facts and correctly sequencing the
process.
Strengths
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Subject verb agreement.
Use of transitional words.
Focused on the topic from beginning to end.
Most sentences use proper capitalization and punctuation.
Needs – Medium –
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Using vocabulary (transitional words) in proper order
editing for content
develop the facts with further description.
GRADE 2 – Folder 4
3 Students
Grade Level – Second Grade
Section A – Jaslin Ramirez
Assignment – Fables and Folktales – Write your own folktale. Students choose an animal with a special
characteristic using the elements of a folktale (how the animal came to be [cause and effect]). Students
authored their own folktale.
Jaslin Ramirez Strengths – Medium-High –
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Uses details in story.
Set up her problem.
Understands the model of a folktale.
Understands dialogue between characters.
Needs – Medium-High –
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Remains focused throughout the story.
Identifies one problem to solve.
Grade Level – Second Grade
Assignment – Fables and Folktales – Write your own folktale. Students choose an animal with a special
characteristic using the elements of a folktale (how the animal came to be [cause and effect]). Students
authored their own folktale.
Jeodys Dominguez
Assignment –above
Strengths – High –
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Uses voice throughout.
Remains on topic.
Sets up problem and solution.
Needs – High –
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Includes a setting and Character traits.
Grade Level – Second Grade
Assignment – Fables and Folktales – Write your own folktale. Students choose an animal with a special
characteristic using the elements of a folktale (how the animal came to be [cause and effect]). Students
authored their own folktale.
Adriana Abreu - Low
Assignment – above
Strengths – Low –
Understands story structure.
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Character attempts to solve problem.
Character has set backs.
Has setting.
Needs – Low –
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Remains in third person entire time.
Choose 1 problem to focus on in beginning.
Re-read own work to make sure it makes sense.