Reflection Letter

1. Reflection Letter Introduction-1st paragraph: How do you feel when you write and read? What are your strengths as a writer and reader? What are your weaknesses as a writer and reader? Do you use reading strategies? • Prediction • Asking Questions • Inferring • Making Connections • Visualizing • Synthesizing (Summarizing) • Reread Do you use writing strategies? • Planning • Drafting • Revising • Editing • Publishing • Providing evidence • Elaborating • Giving details • Have introduction/topic sentences • Use transitions

2. Reading: • Confuses words and letters • Often loses place when reading, requires finger tracking • Difficulty when silent reading, needs to mouth words or whisper when reading • Doesn't enjoy reading • Reluctant Reader • Reading is slow and deliberate • Lots of word substitutions, omissions and invented words • Cannot skim or scan for pertinent information • Writing: • Written ideas follow a logical sequence • Ideas are clearly written and expressed • Rarely enjoys writing and responds negatively to written activities • Written work is rarely legible • Experiences difficulty when copying instructions from the board, orally or chart paper • Rarely completes written assignments • Written work is poorly organized and difficult to follow • Punctuation and grammar is weak and often missing • Written ideas lack cohesion • Written work is often difficult to understand • Spelling is weak • Letters and/or words are often reversed

3. Body: Describe each writing piece contained in the exit portfolio Explain why you are incorporating each piece. Why are you proud of each piece of writing? • Conclusion- How did you improve as a writer/reader over the year? How do you still need to improve as a writer/reader? What grade do you think you deserve for the final portfolio? Why?