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Students should be able to:
Habits, Skills, and Processes
Write their name, date, and select a title when appropriate
Write a detailed list
Use conventional capitalization, punctuation, and grammar
Use dialogue to enhance audience awareness, idea
development, and organization
Use a variety of strategies to spell words correctly
Organize sentences into paragraphs
Craft several related paragraphs
Describe using adjectives and adverbs
Use strong verbs
Use similes and metaphors
Use transition words and transitional phrases
Vary sentence beginnings, structures, and lengths to create
complex, varied sentences
Sequence ideas to support audience and purpose
Write pieces in each of the four categories of writing:
Literary, Personal, Transactive, and Reflective using the
appropriate formats and patterns
Write pieces with a beginning, middle, and end or a lead,
body, and conclusion after modeling has occurred
Authors’ Craft
Identify a specific purpose and audience for writing
Use voice when appropriate
Select and narrow topics
Choose a pre-writing form
Receive suggestions and compliments graciously from
teachers and peers
Listen to others’ writing and offer constructive feedback
Establish and use criteria for evaluating writing
Edit writing to find missing words, words spelled
incorrectly, clarify meaning, or to add detail in response to
peer or teacher feedback
Support their purpose using details or reasons
Add or change details during the revision process
Use tools (e.g., dictionary, thesauruses, environmental
print, writers’ notebook, technology) to craft and edit
their writing
Use a writer’s notebook
Sustain writing over several sessions and take pieces
through the writing process
Use technology to gather, organize, manipulate and express
ideas and information
Use technology to access ideas and information and as a
means of communication
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