Ideas: 1
The child uses scribbles, in lines which imitate written text. The child dictated a sentence, indicating his knowledge that he was writing.
Organization: 1
The child writes left to right (observed) and top to bottom (observed). The child has no sense of story, including beginning and ending. The entire page of scribbles means one sentence. There is no spacing, no breaking of scribble text.
Voice: 1
The child does communicate some feeling with the bright colors. The drawing shows curvy lines, energy, and enthusiasm. Work is similar to other early, experimenting writers. The child is writing for himself, with no regard to whether any audience will read it.
Word Choice: 1
The child uses no letters and is not imitating word patterns. The pictures and scribble writing do stand for an idea. There is no environmental print copied. This is typical of early, experimenting writers. Word choice will not normally appear in writing until there is a sense of words as representative of spoken language and ideas.
Sentence Fluency: 1
The child mimics the use of writing across the page, though in scribbles and not letters strings or copied words. There is no pattern for a sentence, other than going straight across the page. There is no sense of sentence, because there is no sense of writing as representative of spoken language.
Conventions: 1
The child is not writing letter strings or attempting to create standard letters. There is no attempt at spacing. The student needs to interpret the writing and picture for us.
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