| Writing to Express
Grades 6 - 8 Students demonstrate their ability to write to express personal ideas by selecting a form and its appropriate elements (e.g., plot, dialogue, rhyme scheme, etc.). Print Version (Acrobat 4k)
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| Create an organizing structure that balances all aspects of the piece and makes effective transitions between sentences and descriptions to unify key ideas and make the message or theme clear to the reader |
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| Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, colorful modifiers, and active, rather than passive voice, to enliven written presentations |
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| Improve the logic of the ideas, word choice, and transitions among paragraphs, passages, and ideas by revising writing based on given or self-generated criteria and others’ responses |
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| Write to express personal ideas that relate a clear, coherent event, situation, and/or storyline by using well-chosen details, that reveal the significance of, or the writer’s attitude about the subject, and that purposefully include rhetorical elements, such as figurative language, description, foreshadowing, and symbolism |
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