Case Study: Kaynia
Student: Kaynia
Age: 8.7
Grade: 3rd
Focus: Persuasive Essay
Kaynia is an active girl who plays well with others and demonstrates great physical vigor. Kaynia’s performance is satisfactory in most content areas; however, she has a difficult time during writing class. A focus of Kaynia’s third-grade writing class is persuasive essay writing. Although most of her peers are able to write persuasive essays, Kaynia is quite frustrated. She has good ideas but is not able to clearly articulate her point of view.
Kaynia’s teacher remembers a staff development on Strategy Instruction she attended and decides to teach Kaynia a persuasive essay writing strategy she learned there. Kaynia’s teacher has the following instructional goal:
Given a writing prompt, Kaynia will write a persuasive essay, clearly articulating her point of view and providing supporting arguments.
Adapted from: The Iris Center. Retrieved from http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdf_case_studies/ics_writex.pdf
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