I was not surprised with students' first writing prompt results. I knew they struggled with writing sentences but really had no idea they were that low. Most of the students in the simple sentence stage had to complete several copies of each number series before they caught on to the patterns. But one can look at the compound sentence PMT, and see how much faster they were able to go through the series until they rewrote the original prompt. Students did an amazing job on the last prompt. Sentences were well written and thought out. I think they were even impressed with themselves!
