Writing+Exemplars+as+RTI

**Writing Exemplars Project**
While principal at a previous school, my staff and I headed in the direction of using writing exemplars as evidence of the levels of student writing at each grade level and to reveal pathways for students’ continued growth as writers. The process was to occur collaboratively with grade teachers selecting the writing topic and marking the papers as a unit using their professional judgement. The student writing samples were not to be used as standards of assessment and reporting, but they were to be used to support and improve teaching and learning of writing skills. The process was also to include the use of actual student writing exemplars from within the school. These would be edited only to hide the identity of the actual writer and to highlight pieces that were indicative of the exemplar level.

Through the process, goals to be achieved included: (1) to facilitate greater consistencies in the instruction of writing (especially proficient instruction) and in the assessment and expectations for student writing, (2) to create student awareness between what was expected in their writing and how their work was accessed in the rubrics and exemplars, (3) to allow parents to make links to what was characteristic of good writers at specific grades, and (4) to promote the writing outcomes highlighted in the curriculum.

//" ... many teachers have collected exemplars to set standards for writing. Typically, they employ exemplars as complements to rubrics with high, average, and low papers selected to demonstrate varied levels of achievement. Exemplars show what rubrics tell about assessment criteria. Usually referenced to grade levels, they illustrate student work in a way that may help other students improve their work." (Foster & Morasco, 2007)//

__**Resources Discussed with Susan Robertson- GSSD Lit Coach**__ Forms of Writing document:

(This includes some potential examples of rubrics discussed at Sask Ministry.) Link to provincial exemplars and rubrics: []

__** Some Online Resources **__ (Nice Shared Resource by Susan) Saskatchewan AFLs Rubrics (Nice Prairie South SD Resource) BC Writing Exemplars Nova Scotia Writing Exemplars



BC Performance Standards - Writing

__ **Documents of Past Work with Writing Exemplars** __