Today, students should have brought home the evaluation of their mid-unit personal narrative. Some of the students scored lowered than they did last year, and that is to be expected. I don’t want parents to become alarm if their Level 3 student is suddenly receiving a Level 2. It is still early in the year, and this mid-unit piece will be one of many that I use to form the students’ mark.
In class, we’ve been discussing the differences between Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 writing by comparing examples. Generally, students who are meeting expectations as set out by the ministry receive a Level 3. Students who are approaching expectations receive a Level 2 and those who exceed, going above and beyond, receive a Level 4.
If you’re interested, here is a copy of the exemplar document that the Ministry of Education give us to help guide us in our marking:
http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/briarcrest/docs/writing18ex.pdf
If you scroll to the Grade 5 section, you can see the different samples of writing (for all 4 levels).
Again, please don’t be alarm if your student’s first piece of writing came back with a lower mark than they're used to receiving. Along with the mark, I have given descriptive feedback to help each student improve their next piece. Encourage your child to apply the suggestion to the upcoming piece, which we will be starting this week.
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