Writing: Check for Understanding

Writing: Check for Understanding

1. As Assessment tool

   • Narrative Writing
     • incorporate imagination
     • personal essay
     • personal story
   • Informative
     • informing reader
     • provide reader with information
     • reporting an event
     • analyzing concepts
   • Persuasive
     • persuading the reader
     • writer seeks to persuade the reader
     • want reader to take action
     • bring about change

2. Strategies to Check for Understanding

   • Interactive Writing
     • share pen with teacher
     • agree on message orally
     • students write a section of the message
     • can be letter, a word, or a phrase
     • whole group then reads aloud the message
   • Read-Write-Pair-Share
     • students read, or view, material and write in response
     • engage in a partner conversation
     • share thoughts with class
   • Summary Writing (Retelling
     • retelling
     • most common form is precis, a short piece that contains main ideas
   • RAFT
     • Role
     • Audience
     • Topic
     • Format