GRADE 2, Unit 2 Narrative Writing Prompt Assessment (2002)



GRADE 2 Expository [Description] Writing Assessment Prompt Writing Applications 2.0 Summer 2004

Situation: You have been asked to write a description of how immigrants came to the United States and how they have survived.

Audience: Students in your classroom.

Directions: Think about the selections you have read in Our Country and Its People. Write an article that describes how immigrants came to America and how they survived. Plan and organize your ideas. Remember to include details that describe how they traveled to the United States of America and why they came.

|Quality Levels |2.0 Applications (Genre) |Writing Strategies (Traits) |WOEL (Conventions) |

| |Grade 2 Strand *2.0 |Grade 2 Standards 1.1 & 1.2 |Grade 2 Standards 1.1-1.8 |

| |Writing moves through a well-planned and logical sequence of ideas|Clear, coherent and complex sentences and paragraphs are |Contains few, if any, errors in the conventions of the |

|4 |with the clear purpose of explaining how immigrants traveled to |evident |English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, |

|Advanced |the US and how they survived. |Writing is supported by specific, related ideas and details |spelling, and sentence structure) |

| |Well-chosen and specific details are used to describe the |that maintain a consistent focus on the immigrants’ journey to |Errors do not interfere with the reader’s understanding |

| |immigrants’ journey and survival efforts. |the US and their survival efforts. |of the writing |

| | |Handwriting is spaced properly, clear and legible | |

| |Writing moves through a logical sequence of ideas (2.0) |Clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs are evident (1.1) |Contains some errors in the conventions of the English |

|3 |Details are used to describe the |Writing is support by Ideas and details that maintain a |language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling,|

|Proficient |immigrants’ journey and survival effort. (2.0) |consistent focus on the immigrants’ journey to the US and their|and sentence structure) |

| |*There is no Expository Standard for Grade 2, however this |survival efforts. (1.1) |Errors do not interfere with the reader’s understanding |

| |Standard has been introduced in Grade 1 and will continue in Grade|Handwriting is legible (1.2) |of the writing |

| |3. Writing Applications Strand 2.0 in Grade 2 addresses | | |

| |Expository writing. | | |

|2 |Writing moves loosely through a list of information with little |Sentences are vague or disjointed |Contains several errors in the conventions of the English|

|Partially |sequence |Writing has limited details and Ideas and inconsistently |language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling |

|Proficient |Limited details are used to describe how immigrants traveled to |focuses on how immigrants traveled to the US and how they |and sentence structure) |

| |the US and how they survived. |survived. |Errors may interfere with the reader’s understanding of |

| | |Handwriting may not be consistently legible and may distract |the writing |

| | |from readability | |

|1 |Writing has a random list of information with no sequence |Sentences are incomplete and lack clarity |Contains numerous errors in the conventions of the |

|Not Proficient |Few or no details are used to describe the immigrants’ journey and|Writing has few or no details and may only be about travel. |English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, |

| |survival efforts. |There is no focus on the immigrants’ survival efforts. |spelling and sentence structure) |

| | |Handwriting is illegible and distracts from readability |Errors interfere with the reader’s understanding of the |

| | | |writing |

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