State Curriculum - Reading

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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. 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. 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.
A. Writing A. Writing A. Writing
1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
a. Generate ideas and topics and make a plan for writing
a. Generate ideas and topics and make a plan before writing
a. Generate topics based on discussion of common experiences using techniques such as graphic organizers, journal writing, listing, webbing, and discussion of prior experiences
b. Write a first draft with a main idea and supporting details
b. Write a first draft with a main idea and supporting details
b. Plan and organize ideas for writing by using an appropriate organizational structure such as chronological or sequential order, comparison and contrast
  • Complete an idea by providing topic, support, and concluding sentences
  c. Organize related ideas into a simple paragraph
 
2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
a. Write to express personal ideas using drawings, symbols, letters, words, sentences, and simple paragraphs
a. Write to express personal ideas using a variety of forms, such as journals, narratives, letters, and reports
a. Compose to express personal ideas to develop fluency using a variety of forms such as journals, narratives, letters, reports, and paragraphs
b. Contribute to a shared writing experience or topic of interest
b. Contribute to a shared writing experience or topic of interest
b. Describe in prose and poetry by using sensory details and vivid language with active verbs and colorful adjectives
c. Use sensory details to expand ideas
c. Use sensory details to expand ideas
c. Compose to inform using summary and selection of major points and examples to support a main idea
d. Use details that support a topic with a clear beginning, middle, and end to inform
d. Compose to inform using major points and examples to support a main idea
d. Compose to persuade using significant reasons and relevant support
  • Agree or disagree with an idea and generate convincing reasons with relevant support
  • Consider effective forms
e. Write persuasive text to support a stated opinion
e. Write persuasive text to support a stated opinion
e. Use writing-to-learn strategies such as journals, admit/exit slips, diagrams, drawings, graphic organizers, and "think-aloud's on paper" to connect ideas and thinking about lesson content
f. Write a variety of responses to text, such as response logs and journals
f. Write a variety of responses to text, such as response logs, journals, and constructed responses
f. Manage time and process when writing for a given purpose
3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
a. Improve writing by
  • Maintaining a topic
  • Adding ideas
a. Improve writing by
  • Maintaining a topic
  • Adding ideas
  • Deleting unrelated ideas
a. Revise texts for clarity, completeness, and effectiveness
  • Eliminate words and ideas that do not support the main idea
  • Clarify meaning by rearranging words within a sentence
  • Clarify meaning by rearranging sentences within a text for a clear beginning, middle, and end
b. Proofread and edit writing for
  • Capitalization at the beginning of sentences
  • Capitalization for names
  • Punctuation at the end of sentences
  • Accurate spelling of previously learned, high-frequency words
b. 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
b. Use suitable traditional and electronic resources to edit final copies of text for correctness in language usage and conventions such as capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
  • Self edit
  • Peer edit
  • Dictionary
c. Prepare writing for publication
c. Prepare writing for publication
c. Prepare the final product for presentation to an audience
4. Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
4. Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
4. Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
a. Identify and use words to express feelings, such as happiness, anger, sadness, frustration
a. Use colorful language to convey thoughts and feelings in formal and informal writing
a. Select words appropriate for audience, situation, or purpose
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
    c. Consider the effect of word choices on the audience
5. Use effective details, words, and figurative language in the student's own composing
5. Use effective details, words, and figurative language in the student's own composing
5. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details, word choice, and use of figurative language in the student's own composing
a. Use descriptive words and other details to expand and improve student's own writing
a. Use sensory words and other details to expand and improve student's own writing
a. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details and words/phrases that extend meaning in student's own composing
  b. Examine and use basic transitions, such as "and," "but," "or," "first," "second," and "last"
b. Explain how specific words/phrases used by the writer affects reader response
    c. Examine and use basic transitions such as "and," "but," "or," "first," "second," and "last"
6. Explain how textual changes in a work clarify meaning or fulfill a purpose
6. Explain how textual changes in a work clarify meaning or fulfill a purpose
  a. Revise own text for word choice
a. Revise own text for word choice
6. Use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
7. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
7. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
a. Identify sources of information on a topic, such as trade books, classroom dictionaries, glossaries, indexes, maps, news magazines, etc.
a. Identify and use sources of information on a topic
a. Identify and use sources of information on a topic
b. Use graphic organizers, such as webs and story maps to organize information
b. Use various information retrieval sources (traditional and/or electronic) to obtain information on a topic
b. Use various information retrieval sources (traditional and/or electronic) to obtain information on a topic
  c. Use note taking and organizational strategies to record and organize information
  • Participate in teacher-directed note taking and organization of information
c. Use note taking and organizational strategies to record and organize information
  • Participate in teacher-directed note-taking and organization of information
  d. Use information to fulfill a given purpose
d. 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.

 

MSDE has developed a toolkit for these standards which can be found online at: http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/reading/vsc_toolkit.html.

 

11/15/07