2 nd

GRADE
ENGLISH School C57

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WRITING ACHIEVEMENT: Uses excellent writing mechanics, and demonstrates comprehension of suspenseful stories
which serve as models for the one the student must eventually write, then writes a suspenseful story, employing the
features of the genre

Describing people in a suspenseful story

Refer to the two parts of the story The Foggy Woods.
Then read the list of characteristics in the columns below.
In each column, there are three characteristics that are true and three that are false.
Circle the three that are true.
The first one has been done for you.

Ms. Jensen Sharon Sharon’s mother

Write a sentence from the story that shows how Ms. Jensen feels compassion for Sharon.

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When you eventually write your own suspenseful story, you must create characters with “personality”.
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2 nd
GRADE
ENGLISH School C57

Briti h
WRITING ACHIEVEMENT: Uses excellent writing mechanics, and demonstrates comprehension of suspenseful stories
which serve as models for the one the student must eventually write, then writes a suspenseful story, employing the
features of the genre

ANSWERS

Since the first column has an answer provided for the student, it is worth only 2 points.
The other columns each have a 3 point value. There are 8 points total.

Ms. Jensen Sharon Sharon’s mom

Writing task
Possible answers:
Ms. Jensen held her student close.
“I was worried about you, Sharon. I saw the fog in the woods and I came to
look for you.”
4 3 2 1 0
The student writes a successful Adequate Partial – Unacceptable Not
sentence from the story (a few inadequate done
which demonstrates how errors) (various (Does not
Ms. Jensen feels errors or apply, or is
compassion for Sharon, some non- incoherent)
and uses excellent writing applicability)
mechanics.

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