Second Grade Writing Assessment

Name__________________________________________ Date___________________________________________

Teacher_________________________________________

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A Day at School

Read the information in the box. Then do the writing activity.

Think about a normal day at school. Describe a typical day. • Describe your favorite subjects • Describe your friendships • Describe what you are looking forward to learning

Pre-Writing Activity

• Be sure to use sensory and action words in your descriptions.

• Be sure your writing has a beginning, middle, and an end.

• Use the web on the next page to help you plan your writing.

• If you need more paper to plan your writing, ask your teacher.

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Describe your favorite subjects

Describe your friendships Describe what you are looking

A Day At School

forward to learning

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Use your ideas to write your story. • Check your writing for correct grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Use the

editing checklist to help you with your writing.

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Now check your writing using this Editing Checklist.

Editing Checklist • Have you started each sentence with a capital letter? • Have you capitalized names of people and places?

ation mark? n word (verb)?

• Have you ended each sentence with the correct punctutio• Does the subject of your sentence agree with the ac

o Examples: Tom plays at the park. o They play at the park.

• Ha ve you written complete sentences?

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