Critical Friend - Writing

Room 6 and Room 5 (my class) worked collaboratively together in critical partners to go over one person's writing sample from term 1 and term 4. My partner (Linda) and I decided to work on her writing sample's instead of mine. To correct her work and see what level she is working at and what she needs to do to get to the next level, we used the room 5 writing rubric. The Room 5 writing rubric is a presentation a group of students in Room 5 including myself created for students who found it difficult to understand the teacher rubric to use ours and easily understand what it means. We went over all six slides (rubrics), punctuation, vocab, organisation, sentence structure, structure and language, and ideas. In the comments section, we worked together to find her mistakes and what she had done right. When we figured it out, we listed in the comments what these were. This helped Linda know what she has right and what she needs help with. The rubric told her what level she is at and what she needs to do to get to the next level. We used suggestions to fix up her Term 4 writing sample so she could understand her mistakes and how to fix them and how easily it is to fix. We worked collaboratively helping each other and giving critical feedback.