Curricular Competencies considered when composing these comments:
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world.
Student has knowledge of some of the writing and design processes to create texts. It is recommended that they study various texts to identify purpose and audience as well as plan to create simple texts. This can be done during Flex.
Student is starting to make personal connections to text. It is recommended that they work with their teacher, during Flex or Wednesday morning tutoring, to work on making a connection between the text and something in their own life experience.
Student is starting to make connections between self, text, and world. It is recommended that they try making a connection between the text and something in your own life experience; a connection between the text and another story or text that you have read/watched or previously; a connection between the text and something that is occurring or has occurred in the world.
Student has been able to consistently use writing processes to successfully plan, develop, and create engaging meaningful texts. Typically, their writing is clear and well structured/organized.
Student can adequately construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world.
Student’s use of writing and design processes is sophisticated and creative. They are to carefully plan, develop and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Student can construct sophisticated and developed personal connections between self, text and world.
Curricular Competencies:
Strengths
In our most recent unit on narrative composition, Student looked at two short stories and a film that all traditionally present as love stories. Student started to see how a story’s theme could change based on our understanding of plot features.
Area for Growth
Student needs support with recognizing which elements of text can be examined and analyzed to come to deeper understandings of the stories.
Next Step
Student can practise responding to text in personal ways by continuing to develop their journal writing in class.
Strength
In our most recent unit on narrative composition, Student wrote an in-class paragraph that attempted to respond to a critical prompt by stating an opinion and supporting it with some evidence from the texts we studied.
Area for Growth
Student should work on applying a variety of reading strategies to reveal deeper meanings of texts. Student can also analyze the texts with a more critical lens in order to see how meaning is shaped and impacted by a variety of features.
Next Step
Student can practise responding to text in personal ways by continuing to develop their journal writing in class.
Strength
Student wrote an in-class multi-paragraph response that approached a critical prompt by stating an opinion and supporting it with evidence from the texts we studied.
Area for Growth
Student should focus on recognizing and evaluating the role that a variety of literary techniques and devices play on the possible meanings of a text. They can also develop their leadership skills in group work situations.
Next Step
I recommend Student try to respond to the more challenging prompt presented to the class, and to attempt to use new or different writing forms and points of view.
Strength
Student wrote an in-class formal essay that fully responded to a critical prompt by stating a substantiated opinion and supporting it with insightful evidence from the texts we studied.
Area for Growth
Student should focus on honing their skills when it comes to applying complex reading strategies to examine the multifaceted literary elements that make up literary analysis.
Next Step
I recommend Student try to respond to the more challenging prompt presented to the class, and to attempt to use new or different writing forms and points of view.