Christen McAfee Writing Attitude Assessment This 2nd grade student was indifferent about writing; her raw

score 70, putting her in the 24th percentile. While she did not completely dislike writing, she was very clear about not enjoy writing in her free time, completing writing assignments, and creating stories. She did infer that she admired writing as a profession or if she had a very clear, personally beneficial purpose for writing something. During the assessment, I noticed her demeanor change when she realized the entire assessment was about writing. She was not too thrilled. In class she had be struggling with an assignment, because she refused to think of ideas to create and invention and write them down. For my observation, she has a problem putting her thoughts to words. Even when she speaks, it takes her a while to say what she is thinking; I would presume that is one of the reasons she does not enjoy writing as much, though she thinks it is an admirable task. My student was so excited to be done with this assessment!

Six Trait Assessment Word Choice 3 Relies on slang, clichs, or repetition * I learned in three of the five sentences* General or ordinary words *nothing about the authors words stand out. She used the basic words correctly.* ---As a second grader, I felt like that this writer did not really explore words in her writing. She was pretty basic with her word choice in this portion of her animal report with. The Capable rating included using words that are descriptive and create and image in the mind. I did not feel like this writer had made it to that point in her writing yet. She did no experimenting with new words, but stuck to the ones she was very familiar with.

Conventions 4 Capitals at the beginning of sentences and variable use on proper nouns. Every first word of each sentence began with a capital letter. There were no proper nouns used in this piece of writing. Spelling of high frequency words usually correct. All the words that were on the word wall were written correctly. Words like black white know they and like, etc. were correct. She struggled with the word learned but it was not one of the words they had reviewed. ---I gave this 2nd grade student a capable conventions rating for this writing, because she had few problems with spelling, punctuations, and capital letters in this piece of writing. She knew exactly what needed to be included to write a sentence properly.