Sample Periodic Writing Assessments: School Reflections

Monitor student growth with Periodic Assessments designed specifically for grades 3-12. Educators can choose from 3 ready-made prompts, complete with Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) and publishing paper.

Monitor student growth with Periodic Assessments designed specifically for grades 1 and 2. Educators can choose from 3 ready-made prompts available in two formats: one with primary handwriting lines for early writers, and one without for more advanced students.

Monitor student growth with Periodic Assessments designed specifically for grades 1 and 2. Educators can create their own prompts and enter them into a ready-to-use template, available in two formats: one with primary handwriting lines for early writers, and one without for more advanced students.

Monitor student growth with Periodic Assessments designed specifically for grades 3-12. Educators can create their own prompts and enter them into a ready-to-use template, complete with Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) and publishing paper.

This Watch & Learn video provides educators with practical strategies for using deliberate practice to help students not only master TWR strategies but also apply these skills as they revise unelaborated paragraphs and transition into independent writing. Additionally, it explores two approaches for planning and integrating a series of TWR activities into the content they […]

Ms. Davis leads her third-graders in a whole-class practice of appositives to describe the characters in the text Because of Winn-Dixie.

Ms. Barker teaches her sixth-grade students how to write sentences using appositives and subordinating conjunctions about Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

In this activity, students brainstorm appositives for the given noun. This is a half-page template. Half-page templates are a great option for shortening activities or saving paper. This customizable template is also available in English.

In this activity, students add an appositive from the bank to each sentence. This customizable template is also available in English.

In this activity, students add an appositive from the bank to each sentence.