Artifact # 2: Informative writing guide and worksheet
"1(b) The teacher creates developmentally appropriate instruction that takes into account individual learners’ strengths, interests, and needs and that enables each learner to advance and accelerate his/her learning."
This artifact shows how I have woven the interests of my students into writing projects. Because I first introduced students to an informative writing assignment around Halloween, I provided students with a writing example that compared Halloween to the Spanish Day of the Dead tradition, therefore using something that students were excited about to help them learn the conventions of informative writing. This informative writing guide also included a worksheet in which students worked on adding details to their writing. Because students were asked to provide descriptive details about what they did during Halloween, this assignment further allowed students to improve their writing through a topic that was important to them. This assignment further enabled students to focus on an area that met their personal interests, as students were asked to select a cultural practice or tradition that they were intrigued by, and write an informative essay about that subject.