How To Kindergarten Reflection Sheet

I am going to be facilitating a study group with some of my primary teachers on writing volume. Before we start our study group we wanted to gather some data. The kindergarten students just finished a unit on HOW TO writing. 

We asked students... circle the page that looks like the writing in most of your books.  We could have had students make tally marks on the top (one child did this). Click here for sheet 

I wish we asked the students to reflect on what they learned as a writer (next time). 

 During the next unit of study we will be focusing on INCREASING writing volume. 

The Learning Progression chart below gives us some suggestions on how much writing our students should be doing. I know that when we look at this chart sometimes teachers are surprised by the volume expectation.  This will be one tool that we will use during this coaching cycle. The Learning Progressions comes from the Pathways book by Lucy Calkins. 

Looking at the reflections below we can set some goals for students. This was over the course of two bends. 

 This child may have been stuck on writing A LOT (filling up the whole page) in just one book. We want her/him to write less on a page (during the first bend) and make more books. During the second bend she can add more to her writing. 

This child is writing lots of booklets(hooray!). We need him/her to add more sentences.

Quick Reflection: Teachers found this reflection sheet helpful. It did not take the students a long time to fill in and it gave us some helpful information. 

Happy teaching!

Melissa