Writing Assessment
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 Fluency
 - Handwriting
 - Transfer of Ideas to Print
Focus
 - Purpose
 - Stay on Topic
 - Elaborate Ideas
Form
 - Gene
 - Organization
​ - Craft 

Rubric for Focus

• Coalesce around one idea
• Elaborate with details
• Elaborate with examples
• Elaborate with

          -  Cause and Effect
          -  Comparison
          -  Problem Solution
          -  Chronology
          -  Description
 
MLPP K-3, 4-5 Writing (Rubrics)

• Content
• Organization
• Style and Voice
• Conventions

 
Purposes for Writing (Modes of Discourse)

• To persuade, argue, state an opinion (inform)
• To inform/explain (describe)
• To tell a story (narrate, describe)

 
Other

• Note taking
• Summary writing
• Generating/Answering
• Questions in Writing
• Analytic Writing

            How Writing Instruction, Interventions, and Assessment Can Improve Student Outcomes

Writing Rubrics (Analytic/Holistic)
M-STEP/SBAC
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,4615,7-140-22709_70117-350553--,00.html
SAT - Writing in Response to Reading

• Reading (Comprehension, Central Ideas/Details, Interpretation, Text Evidence)
• Analysis (Analytical Task; Author’s Use of Evidence, Reasoning, Elements, Features; Support for Claims; Focus/Relevancy)
• Writing (Command of Language, Precise Central Claim, Idea Progression/ Organization, Style and Tone, Sentence Variety, Word Choice, Conventions

Continuum for Narrative Writing
Continuum for Informational Writing
Continuum for Opinion/Argument Writing
Adapted from Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade: A Yearlong Workshop Curriculum, Grades K-8   

Graham Recommendations

• Monitor Progress in Students’ Writing (Toward Grade/Content Standards; Classroom, Schoolwide; Curriculum-Based Measures)
• Teacher Feedback
• Self-Assessment           

       http://www.ernweb.com/educational-research-articles/strategies-self-assessment-writing-evaluating-rubric/
 
SBAC Brief Writing Rubric

• Focus and Detail
• Organization
• Transitions
• Word Choice
• Sentence Variation

                                                   
Revision/Editing

• sentence combining
• snapshots
• thought shots
• shrink a century
• explode a moment
• author’s craft: metaphors, analogies, personification, etc.                                                                    

​Smarter Balanced Assessment - Writing Rubrics
 - Argumentative Writing Rubric (Grades 6-11)
 - Informative-Explanatory Writing Rubric (Grades 3-5)
 - Informative-Explanatory Writing Rubric (Grades 6-11)
 - Narrative Writing Rubric (Grades 3-8)
 - Opinion Writing Rubric (Grades 3-5)
 - Research Rubrics (Grades 3-5 and 6-11)

Smarter Balanced Assessment - Writing Targets

Continuum for Narrative Writing -- Rubric  
Continuum for Informational Writing -- Rubric 
Continuum for Opinion/Argument Writing -- Rubric
Adapted from Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade: A Yearlong Workshop Curriculum, Grades K-8     Lucy Calkins and Colleagues (Heinemann, 2013/2014)        

Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions                           Calkins, L., Hohne, K., & Robb, A. (2014). Portsmouth NH: Heinemann
Tips for Using Writing Pathways with Teacher Teams by TCRWP


12 Strategies for Self-Assessment of Writing
“Self-assessment methods in writing instruction: a conceptual framework, successful practices and essential strategies,” by Kristen Nielsen, Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 1–117.