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Writing Committee Minutes from 5/5/09 Meeting
==The next round of writing samples will be due on May 26, 2009. We will review the samples at our Tuesday Think Tank meeting on that morning. All members of the Language Arts team need to come to the meeting with their samples graded and with the rubric they used to determine the grade if it was something other than the TAKS rubric in 3-5. There have been many creative ideas shared in the TTT writing overviews. We plan to continue to review writing samples at Tuesday Think Tank meetings next school year, also. Additionally, a helpful rubric workshop will be offered in August. A Parent Writing Night is planned again during the 4th-Six Weeks of school next year to share our writing samples with parents.==

Sixth Six Weeks Writing Samples

Kindergarten = Personal Narrative, Reading Response, and EOY benchmark writing sample

First = Nonfiction, Reading Response, and Trait-focused piece

Second Grade = Reading Response, Poetry, and EOY benchmark writing sample

Third Grade = Reading Response, Poetry, and EOY benchmark writing sample

Fourth Grade = Reading Response, Poetry, and EOY benchmark writing sample Fifth Grade = Author study, Reading Response, and EOY benchmark writing sample