PROJECT WRITE: A Look at Children's Writing, K-5

Here is a look at a writing "continuum" at one elementary school in Massachusetts. In this short essay, you can see what genres students study and when, as well as examples of writing at each grade level.

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In this essay, I will focus on an examination of students' writing (kindergarten to grade five). All of this writing was completed by children who attend the Hardy Elementary School in Arlington, Massachusetts, and who participated in Project WRITE, which was sponsored by the Hood Children's Literacy Project. As I share these children's writing, I will point out the different purposes for which these children wrote. I will explain what classroom teachers and college professors who were associated with the Hood Children's Literacy Project learned from these students' writing, and I will describe the criteria we used to evaluate these students' writing. Finally, I will share with you the conclusions we drew from Project WRITE.