Student 1

Strengths

Student drew a picture of nine

monkey figures. She drew the
monkeys from the book, Naughty
Little Monkeys above her opinion
paragraph.
Student stated her opinion. She
said, I like Naughty Little
Monkeys.
Student inputted personal feelings
and made connection to herself.
She said, It made me feel happy.
Student gave specific details from
the book to support her reasoning.
She said, I like the story because
the monkey was playing with the
lipstick. This was an even that
occurred in the book.
Student references title of book in
opinion statement. She referenced
the title Naughty Little Monkeys
when she stated her opinion.

CCSS alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.1

Areas of Need

CCSS

Students should learn to write her

thoughts out on paper. There is
very little evidence of her work in
the written portion of the opinion
piece.
The only letters present in this
students piece are I, T, and m.
This student needs to learn how to
print upper and lowercase letters.
This student needs expand her
sentences her sentences. She
needs to learn how to expand on
her thoughts. For example the
student says, It made me feel
happy. One may ask, What does
it refer too? Student can
incorporate more nouns to create
detailed opinion pieces in the
future.
Student should become familiar
with letter sounds (phonemes) in
order to compose words.
alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.F

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.A

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.B

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.C

Instructional Plan

Student 1 is considered a WB
student in the class. Student one
struggles with expressing and
writing her ideas. As a teacher Id
have a journal writing session for
her to practice expressing her
ideas and thoughts freely. This
would provide an opportunity for
her to free write and dig deep. I
would read books with this student
to show her different examples of
writings as well as show her
examples what words letters can
form. As a formative assessment I
would give this student an
alphabet every week for her to
trace and pronounce. Id monitor
this student closely. As a
summative assessment Id have
her identify objects that start with
the letter I assign. For example, if I
give her the letter J shed have
to find objects around his/her
house that start with the letter. As
a summative assessment Id give
her an alphabet and ask the
student to recite the letter sound
and name. By the end of the
semester, Id assess my student
on all the alphabets. My hope is to
scaffold lead into compiling simple
words like is, he, me, we. Id
advise one to one instruction. For
this student, we do need to take
into account that this is the
students first year in
Kindergarten.

Student 2
Strengths

Student stated her opinion in her

response. She wrote, My opinion
is about the Naughty Monkeys. It
was Funny because the little
monkeys was swinging from the
curtain. Student gave specific
details from the book to support
her reasoning. She referenced a
part of the story when the
monkeys swung from the curtain.
Student wrote many upper and
lower case letters throughout her
piece. For example she wrote,
Mio Piyn is a B the Noushy
(My opinion about the
Naughty)
Student shows evidence that she
can correspond letters to the
sounds of the word. She sounded
out the letters in the words and
spelt words according to what
she heard. (i.e Curtain was
spelt KrtIn). She wrote short
vowel and consonant sounds.
Student drew a picture linking to
story Naughty Little Monkeys.
She drew two monkeys and an
arrow pointing to the wall of her
picture. Student mentions title,
Naughty Little Monkey when
giving her opinion about the
book.

CCSS alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.1

Areas of Need

Student needs to learn rule of

capitalization. The letters in her
piece are all different cases. This
student needs to learn when to
capitalize her letters.
Student should learn how to
compose words from sound-letter
relationship. This student should
practice spelling simple words
like My.
Student should learn when to add
punctuations marks to end of
their sentences to separate
ideas. (i.e. period, exclamation
mark, and question mark).

CCSS alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.A

Instructional Plan
Student 2 is considered DP from my
class. DP means Developing
Proficiency. This student has a very
good idea of letter-sound relationship.
She has the ability to recognize one
letter constant and vowel sounds.
However, her ability to construct
complete sentences and words are
poor. The convention in her opinion
piece needs improvement. For this
student Id give her a list of sight
words that she can refer to in her
piece. This list would have simple
words like, me, on, if, he, she, ect. Id
give her different word lists for her to
practice spelling either at home or in
school. I would give student #2
activities in regards with
capitalization. For a formative
assessment Id give this student a
prompt for the student to write about.
I would then sit down and talk about
her writing. I want to stay away from
giving students capitalization drills.
Drills dont teach the concept behind
the idea. I would conference with the
students and discuss the errors in the
writing together. Having the student
see his or her own work being
corrected with a teacher build
personal meaning. Id have group
collaboration to address this students
needs in the classroom. For this
student we need to take into
consideration that this is a second
year Kindergartner. She has more
experience that the WB student.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.A

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.D

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.C

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.B

Student 3
Strength

Student stated her opinion in her

response. She stated, I like Naughty
Little Monkeys because it reminds
me of me. This student drew a
picture of two monkeys next to a
door. She labeled her door as well.
Student printed upper and Lower
case letters throughout her piece;
she capitalized the title Naughty
Little Monkeys as well as the pronoun
I.
Student expanded her thoughts by
providing specific details.
Student mentions references title
Naughty Little Monkey in opinion
piece.
Student was able to spell simple
words using phonetics such as
when and me. Student spelt word
accurately and spaced out words as
well.
Student uses and recognizes sight
words such as "me, it, I, and, do."
Student made a personal connection
from the book to herself. She states,
I like Naughty Little Monkeys
because it reminds me of me
because when my mom and dad go
somewhere I think I can do whatever
I want. She recalled a time when her
parents were not home, just like the

Areas of Need

Student should practice

capitalization. Student has shown
that she can capitalize the pronoun
I, however there are words that
should not be capitalized (i.e.
Because, Me, My).
Student should learn when to add
punctuations marks to end of their
sentences to separate ideas. (i.e.
period, exclamation mark, and
question mark).

Instructional Plan

Student 3 is considered my ME
student. This student shows that
she can state and make
connection to herself. What Ive
noticed is that his student has
slight grammar errors. This
students piece is legible and
understandable. Compared to
the student 2, student 3 is close
to spelling words correctly.
Student 3 knows how to space
out her words and write with
voice. I would teach her
grammatical rules like
punctuation and capitalization. I
would give student sentences
and ask them to place the
correct punctuation mark. For
this student Id like to teach
voice. I could incorporate the
use of punctuation marks to
express the way I want a
sentence to be read. I believe
this student can do individual
work. However, peer sharing
would help her to read out loud
to others and share ideas. We
must take into consideration
that this is a second year
Kindergartener.

monkeys in Naughty Little Monkeys.

CCSS alignment

CCSS alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.1

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.A

CSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.8

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.B

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.A

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.D

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.C