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Reading/ELA:
Standard 4.0 Writing
Students will compose in a variety of modes by developing content, employing specific forms, and selecting language appropriate for a particular audience and purpose.
Indicator
- 1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
Objectives
- Generate ideas and topics and make a plan before writing
- Write a first draft with a main idea and supporting details
- Organize related ideas into a simple paragraph
Indicator
- 2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
Objectives
- Write to express personal ideas using a variety of forms, such as journals, narratives, letters, and reports
- Contribute to a shared writing experience or topic of interest
- Use sensory details to expand ideas
- Compose to inform using major points and examples to support a main idea
- Write persuasive text to support a stated opinion
- Write a variety of responses to text, such as response logs, journals, and constructed responses
Indicator
- 3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
Objectives
- Improve writing by
- Maintaining a topic
- Adding ideas
- Deleting unrelated ideas
- Proofread and edit writing for
- Complete sentences
- Capitalization at the beginning of sentences
- Capitalization of proper nouns
- Punctuation at the end of sentences
- Commas with dates, salutations, and closing, and items in a series
- Apostrophes in contractions
- Quotation marks in simple dialogue
- Prepare writing for publication
Indicator
- 4. Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
Objectives
- Use colorful language to convey thoughts and feelings in formal and informal writing
- Acquire and use new vocabulary
Indicator
- 5. Use effective details, words, and figurative language in the student's own composing
Objectives
- Use sensory words and other details to expand and improve student's own writing
- Examine and use basic transitions, such as "and," "but," "or," "first," "second," and "last"
Indicator
- 6. Explain how textual changes in a work clarify meaning or fulfill a purpose
Objective
- Revise own text for word choice
Indicator
- 7. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
Objectives
- Identify and use sources of information on a topic
- Use various information retrieval sources (traditional and/or electronic) to obtain information on a topic
- Use note taking and organizational strategies to record and organize information
- Participate in teacher-directed note taking and organization of information
- Use information to fulfill a given purpose
Indicators/objectives that include assessment limits are assessed on MSA *New Standards identifies the need for students to process 1 million words per year to maintain academic progress.
11/15/07
