Thursday, February 18, 2010

Moment of Truth!

It has been exciting in our room lately as everyone is finishing up their narrative writing. We use an excellent program called WPP (Writing Practice Program). When we submit our writing entries, we get a score that assesses us in six different categories. The highest score to get is a 36, and it's really fun to see the anticipation before someone gets their score back. This was yesterday when Baugh submitted, and he got a 36!! Go, Baugh!

What do you like about WPP? Do you think it helps you develop your writing skills?

39 comments:

Charlie said...

WPP has helped us write because the whole idea of the website is to write stories. The good thing about WPP is that it gives us good writing prompts for a sturdy foundation for our writing. Another reason it is good is because it gives us a score and if it's not good, we can see the areas that we must improve on.

Smith said...

I think it helps develop our writing because if we do get a 36 we feel confident in our writing. WPP also has tutorials to help us make it better next time.

Smith said...

I think it helps develop our writing because if we do get a 36 we feel confident in our writing. WPP also has tutorials to help us make it better next time.

Rucker said...

I think WPP helps your writing in many ways. The website lets you know what you need to work on and helps you understand how to write. It helps you learn and tweek your writing. This is how WPP helps your writing.

Anonymous said...

I like how WPP suggests tutorials for things that you didn't do well on to let you have a second chance to make your writing better. I think WPP helps develop writing skills because whenever I submit I'm hoping that I will get a 36 (the highest grade possible). Even when I don't get a 36 I always want to take one on the tutorials to try to to improve to a 36. Jack

Witt said...

It has been exciting in here. Everyone is looking over peoples shoulder to see what the person is going to get. Almost everyone got a 36. The highest you can get.

stan said...

I had a lot of fun doing that! It really helped my thinking and my creative writing. So I ended up with a 36!!!

Bobby said...

That was so much fun. It was so odd how most of us are getting 36's.

[ No it's not you taught us to write great.]

Thomas said...

We use WPP for righting. We have a writing prompt as the subject and build of that. Everyone gathers together and watch other people get their grade.

Christopher said...

I like WPP for many reasons. One reason is that it tells you the mistakes that you made and how to fix them. Another reason is that it tells you what to work on. I do think that it helps your writing skills because of those to reasons.

Bobby said...

I like WPP because it helps you achieve high standards and it helps you by setting a goal for you.

Alex said...

I think that WPP is very fun because you don't know what you are going to get. When I submitted I got a 36. I was very proud of my self for getting it. I will be trying my hardest to get a 36 because if i got it once, I can definitely get it again.

baugh said...

I like WPP because it helps you get to be a better writer.WPP helps you to be a better writer by giving you ideas about what you would write about. Secondly,WPP helps you write by giving you a suggestions to your writing problems. WPP gives you helpful videos to. I think WPP helps your writing skills by giving you a suggestions to your writing problems.

John Swords said...

I like WPP online. It is a great site for achieving goals that are a struggle for me. It is completely helping me because I push myself to get better goals unless it is a 36 because that is the highest you can go. I like wpp online.

jason said...

I enjoy WPP because it shows you what you did wrong.
Also I like it because it shows how your writing is. WPP helps my writing by showing what I did wrong. It also helps by showing how to improve my writing.

Michael Gennari said...

What I like about WPP is the writing prompts because they're fun! I also like about it is great for learning something new. I say this does help my writing.

Ross said...

I agree, that is very exciting! I got a 36, too. WPP helps my writing because I get to see a score based on how long and complex my writing is. It is almost as easy as π! My score is usually on the high side because I take my time. WPP is fun!

-Ross

greer said...

I think WPP helps our writing because it helps us write more, specific, and vivid paragraphs. It can help in writing a writing prompt. When I would have to do an essay and I had a choice, I would choose WPP.

evans said...

I think it helps us because it tells us how we are doing and then gives us feedback and also tells us what tutorial we need to see

Benton said...

WPP has helped us write by getting excited about grade you get. If you get a 35 or a 36 you get a sense of pride. It also helps us by telling us what we got wrong and how we can improve.

Buchanan said...

I like taking my time and creating a story on WPP. WPP gives you creative writing prompts such as secret door. I love working and spending time on WPP because I get to create my own story and my own ideas.

evans said...

I think WPP helps us by telling us how we are doing and gives us feedback. it also tells us which tutorials we need to watch. I also think it tells us our score out of 36.

Will H said...

I think WPP online has helped me a lot with my writing progress in all of the stories I've read. WPP gives everyone a lot of ways to help by watching tutorials that are fun and teach. It helps develop writing in ten minutes for most people. Even when people get a thirty-six, it still gives a ton of help by highlighting your grammer and spelling mistakes. It also can show you your recommended lessons.

Hastings said...

What I like about WPP is that you can see what the internet thinks about your writing. Also what I like about WPP is that before your writing is graded you can see what changes you need to make. I think it really helps my writing skills because it tells me what I did wrong. Also you can listen to tutorials to help your writing.

Mack said...

I like WPP because when you finish a big story the computer grades it so your teacher doesn't have to. I also like it because it's faster. I do think it helps develop your writing skills because if you make a bad grade you will want to do it again.

Mathon said...

I think wpp helps us because we can see what we need to work on. Also I like that you can go back and change your mistakes. Lastly I like it because you can express yourself.

Mac said...

It helps us because it makes us confident when you get a 36. Secondly, When you do submit you can look at the tutorials. WPP has a lot of helpful ponters.

Matthew said...

WPP helps us because it helps us on our writing, and it tries to help us improve. WPP makes writing easier because it show us scores so we know what to study and improve on. I think it does help us on our writing skill, it is a good program that can help and show us on errors and improvements.

trace said...

WPP has helped ,because it has different story catagory. Plus it has tutorials that we can take to help our writing. Last it tells us our score and if we get a 36 it gives us cofidence.


-Trace

Joe!!!!! said...

I like WPP because it grades your paper in an instant! I think it helps your writing skills a lot! It helps your writing because it gives you suggestens! Baugh, really!

Joe!!!!! said...

I like WPP because it grades your paper in an instant! I think it helps your writing skills a lot! It helps your writing because it gives you suggestens! Baugh, really!

JORDAN!!!!!!! said...

Wpp Online helps us by giving us our grades and also it lets keep on trying till you get a 36. Another reason why I like it is because it helps develop our writing by telling us how good we are, how poorly we did and what we need to work on. Lastly I like WPP because makes you a better writer.

Willo said...

I like that when you first publish your paragraph or paragraphs on wpp you don't know what your going to get.

Bays? said...

I like how it rates your work ,and averages what you have done that month. I also like how it tells you what you have done wrong or if you did anything wrong. I also like it doesn't bring you down it has constructive comments and has games to help you.

alberto said...

I like that wpp online because it tells you what you are low on and the tutorials

Will.O said...

I think it will help develop your writing because it will make you want to get the highest grade possible. Also the tutorials help develop my writing on WPP.

Jason said...

I like WPP because it helped me in many different ways. First, WPP helped me by helping me with word choice. I used to say, " I ran very fast", but now I say,"I dashed very fast". Also, WPP helped me with my sentence structure.
I think WPP helps me develop my writing skills because it helps me in a lot of ways.

Austin said...

I like WPP because it helps us get better at writing. The higher the score is the more you want to get better, the lower the score you work harder to get better. Making our writing better is important because later in life if we become a writer or publisher or anything else that you have to write things you will have to write all most perfectly. WPP is a very good website. Some of our writing skills depend on WPP because the better we writ the more we want to write. Getting a 36 or a 20 doesn't really mater because a computer grades it. You may of gotten a 18, but when Mrs. Humphreys grades it she might give you a 100. All the tutorials help us write because they teach you what you need to know and why you have mistakes in your writing. Writing is just like an ocean that is flowing smoothly because if your writing is flowing smoothly it sounds way better if your writing is choppy it doesn't flow smoothly. WPP give us ideas that we would have never thought of. They give us constrictive criticism that helps us improve.

Austin said...

I like WPP because it helps us get better at writing. The higher the score is the more you want to get better, the lower the score you work harder to get better. Making our writing better is important because later in life if we become a writer or publisher or anything else that you have to write things you will have to write all most perfectly. WPP is a very good website. Some of our writing skills depend on WPP because the better we writ the more we want to write. Getting a 36 or a 20 doesn't really mater because a computer grades it. You may of gotten a 18, but when Mrs. Humphreys grades it she might give you a 100. All the tutorials help us write because they teach you what you need to know and why you have mistakes in your writing. Writing is just like an ocean that is flowing smoothly because if your writing is flowing smoothly it sounds way better if your writing is choppy it doesn't flow smoothly. WPP give us ideas that we would have never thought of. They give us constrictive criticism that helps us improve.