Narrative Writing Test!

On Tuesday, the students started the day by taking their first writing test of the year. They were given a writing prompt and were asked to create a narrative piece. The students were given 3 hours to complete this writing. The class was able to finish the writings, but as expected, the entire 5th grade struggled with this task. The level of writing this year is said to be lower than expected through the first few weeks of the school year.

This presents me with a great challenge going into the next few weeks. I start my unit plan on informational writing Wednesday. I am extremely excited and I really believe the students are just as excited as I am. I hope that over the next two weeks, I can begin to prepare the students for their second writing test and just as importantly, for the 5th Grade Writing Test in February.

 Although testing is not the only way to find out what the children know, and writing is very subjective making it hard to really distinguish their "abilities", we as their teachers have to do our best to give our students the necessary tools needed to pass these types of test with flying colors. The first step of this process has been accomplished with the simple completion of the narrative writing test.