Responds to Independently other Responds participates students Actively engages in does not to direct by making comments group reading attend to questions comments or and engages the lesson asked by a activities asking in direct teacher questions dialogue with peers connections Responds to makes to between literature by making cannot connections a text, books or connections to own make with character other connections experiences and prompts actions or people’s world emotions experiences Writing June During kindergarten, students work on a variety of opinion, informative and explanatory texts, as well as personal narratives. During writing workshop, they are exposed to models of writing, and are then given the time to write independently and the Below Meets Exceeds opportunity to share their work with their classmates. Students write how-to pieces, all about books, narratives about events and poetry. Much of their writing takes place in the context of content studies and is shared with their families. Grade Standards Using a combination of uses some needs writes on topic across writers craft, drawing, dictating, and pages totally support to several pages in sense of writing, composes a unrelated write different genres voice, adds variety of texts sequentially details
Actively engages in group reading activities does not attend to the lesson Responds to direct questions asked by a teacher Independently participates by making comments or asking questions Responds to other students comments and engages in direct dialogue with peers Responds to literature by making connections to own experiences and world cannot make connections makes connections with prompts to a text, character actions or emotions connections between books or other people’s experiences Writing During kindergarten, students work on a variety of opinion, informative and explanatory texts, as well as personal narratives. During writing workshop, they are exposed to models of writing, and are then given the time to write independently and the opportunity to share their work with their classmates. Students write how-to pieces, all about books, narratives about events and poetry. Much of their writing takes place in the context of content studies and is shared with their families. June Below Meets Exceeds Grade Standards Using a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing, composes a variety of texts pages totally unrelated needs support to write sequentially writes on topic across several pages in different genres uses some writers craft, sense of voice, adds details