by Victoria D'Amaro If your writing instruction consists of giving students a prompt and expecting them to just roll with it, you might find that some students will become easily frustrated or not know how to develop their piece further. So how can you fix this? To amp up your writing instruction, you might consider modeling how to use graphic organizers to plan writing. This will provide students with a useful tool and will also help them get kick-started on their writing. Now they will know how to plan their writing. But what’s next? Your next step might be to create a writing station with anchor charts, publishing paper, and fancy pens to increase students’ motivation to write. Great! They’re excited to write now. But something is still missing to help them take their writing to the next level… Once you have the prompts and writing station, and you’ve modeled how to plan a writing piece with a graphic organizer, you’ll want to pull one more trick from up your sleeve: visual rubrics! Visual rubrics help students understand writing expectations while providing them with a mentor text (model). These mentor texts show students what their writing should look like: the length, amount of detail, neatness, etc. Visual rubrics also give students a chance to assess their own writing and set goals for themselves. Students can compare their writing to the visual rubric and then look ahead to see how they can better their piece. Visual rubrics help students think like a writer while helping them understand the expectation for their finished product. I hope these powerful tools help make writing an easier task for your children/ students!
Examples of visual rubrics
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