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 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
a. Generate and select topics using techniques such as graphic organizers, journal writing, free writing, listing, webbing, and discussion of prior experiences
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
b. Plan and organize ideas for writing by using an appropriate organizational structure such as chronological or sequential order, comparison and contrast, cause and effect
  • 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 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
a. Compose to express personal ideas to develop fluency using a variety of forms suited to topic, audience, and purpose
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
b. Describe in prose and poetry by using purposeful imagery and sensory details with active verbs and colorful adjectives
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
c. Compose to inform using a structure with a clear beginning, middle, and end and a selection of major points, examples, and facts to support a main idea
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
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 and word choice
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
e. Use writing-to-learn strategies such as diagrams, flow charts, freewriting, learning logs, 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, journals, and constructed responses
f. Manage time and process when writing for a given purpose
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
  • 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
a. Revise texts for clarity, completeness, and effectiveness
  • Eliminate words and ideas that do not support the main idea
  • Clarify meaning by adding modifiers and sensory words within a sentence
  • Clarify meaning by rearranging sentences within a text for a clear beginning, middle, and end
  • Provide sentence variety and length by combining sentences and correcting rambling sentences
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
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
  • Thesaurus
  • Spell checker
  • Language handbook
c. Prepare writing for publication
c. Prepare the final product for presentation to an audience
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. Use colorful language to convey thoughts and feelings in formal and informal writing
a. Select words appropriate for audience, situation, or purpose
a. Select words appropriate for audience, situation, or purpose
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
b. Describe how listeners might respond differently to similar words such as nightmare/dream, loud/deafening, cute/gorgeous
  c. Consider the effect of word choices on the audience
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. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details, word choice, and use of figurative language in the student's own composing
5. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details, organizational pattern, word choice, and use of figurative language in the student's own composing
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
a. Assess the effectiveness of word choice in student's own composing
  • Language suitable for a given purpose
  • Words/phrases that extend meaning
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
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"
c. Examine and use spatial transitions such as "near," "far," "on the left," and "in the distance"
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
6. Explain how textual changes in a work clarify meaning, address a particular audience, or fulfill a purpose
a. Revise own text for word choice
a. Revise own text for word choice
a. Revise own text for word choice
    b. Explain how revisions in word choice affect meaning
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
7. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
a. Identify and use sources of information on a topic
a. Identify and use sources of information on a topic
a. Identify and use sources of information on a topic
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
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
c. Use note taking, organizational strategies, and simple documentation of information 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
d. Use information to fulfill a given purpose
    e. Credit sources when paraphrasing and quoting to avoid plagiarism
 

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