to provide an exemplary education that inspires and prepares all DoDEA students for success in a dynamic, global environment
to foster learning communities committed to success for all students in a caring environment
Goal 1: By 2013, all students will improve writing proficiency across the curriculum using 6+1 Writing Traits as measured by the Terra Nova 3, local writing prompt, and English Language Arts assessment.
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Intervention
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As our students engage in the writing process we are utilizing text and literature to model and apply the primary traits of the 6+1 Analytic Model.
1. Ideas: The students will use a variety of experience to generate ideas through brainstorming.
2. Organization: The students will learn organization through a variety of tools such as graphic organizers, outlining, sequencing… to introduce, transition and conclude a piece of writing.
3. Voice: The students will develop voice that is appropriate for narrative, expository, and persuasive modes for a variety of audiences and points of view.
4. Conventions: The students will practice grammar and mechanics through DOL, paragraph editing, peer editing and teacher conferencing of student.
5. Word Choice: From the use of literature and thesauri, students will generated and apply a variety of powerful words into their writing by utilizing effective adjectives, strong verbs, and figurative expressions such as similes and metaphors.
6. Sentence Fluency: The student will learn to develop smoothly flowing writing by analyzing sentence structure to improve beginnings, transitions, sentence length, and word choice.
Writing Assessment Rubrics |
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1st - 3rd Rubric
Note: 1st Grade is only graded on organization, conventions, and ideas.
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Goal 2: By 2016, all students will improve their ability to implement problem solving strategies across the curriculum by identifying problems, selecting effective strategies, and communicating solutions as measured by the Terra Nova 3, Math curriculum end of the year test, and local problem solving assessment.
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"Problem Solving in Every Subject" |
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We are using a 4 step problem solving model called U.P.S.L.
