Analysis Of Madison's Story 'The End'

Interaction For this writing assessment I asked my student, Madison, to write about whatever she wanted. Madison did not need any prompts and began writing right away. She wrote independently for almost five minutes. Afterwards, Madison read back her story all in a similar tone until the last sentence, where she used some expression to say, “The end!”

Qualitative Analysis The story Madison wrote was a personal narrative about her experience of playing with a friend outside and getting hurt. Madison has told me before that she likes to write about herself and it is evident in this writing sample. If Madison were to revise her story, I would have her read it aloud again, but stop her to ask questions such as, “Where were you walking to? Where …show more content…
She did have a few errors, two of which deal with double letters. She forgot the second ‘l’ in finally on line four and the second ‘p’ in tripped on line six. She also had a little trouble with vowels that can sound the same in the word neighbors, which she spelled as ‘nembers’ on line two. Madison used the ending –er instead of -or, which is understandable because in some circumstances they can sound the same. It seems that Madison spelled neighbors as the same way she would say it without breaking the word up into chunks or syllables. Madison capitalized the beginning of every sentence and the word ‘I’, but did not capitalize the proper noun, ‘Molly’. She knew to end each sentence with a period, but did not use any other punctuation other than the periods and the exclamation point at the end. Some guidance I could give Madison to help her sentence structure would be to first use the “finger method” of spacing out words so they would all be equally spaced out and there would not be a problem of them running together. I would also encourage her to make sure all of her letters in each word can be read as the letter they are supposed to be and to not cram them into such a little space. The intended audience for this story was myself, or whoever the reader would be. Madison elaborated more about the story after she read it and she made it seem like the incident had happened recently. This may …show more content…
Madison wrote 56 words total, 53 of which were spelled conventionally. This results in about 94.6% of the words being spelled correctly. The three words (5.4%) that were not spelled correctly included: ‘nembers’, which should have been ‘neighbors’, ‘finaly’, which should have been ‘finally’, and ‘triped’, which should have been ‘tripped’. Madison’s story included six sentences, which ranged from consisting 2 words to 19 words. The average number of words per sentence was 9.3. There were two sentences that were complex because they had conjunctions in