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 for writing
a. Generate ideas and topics and make a plan for writing
a. Generate ideas and topics and make a plan before writing
b. Dictate or write words, phrases, or sentences related to ideas or illustrations
b. Write a first draft with a main idea and supporting details
b. Write a first draft with a main idea and supporting details
    c. Organize related ideas into a simple paragraph
2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas and inform
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, or words
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
b. Contribute to a shared writing experience or topic of interest
b. Contribute to a shared writing experience or topic of interest
b. Contribute to a shared writing experience or topic of interest
c. Use sensory details to expand ideas
c. Use sensory details to expand ideas
c. Use sensory details to expand ideas
d. Dictate, draw, or write to inform
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
e. Dictate, draw, or write a response to text, such as response logs and journals
e. Write persuasive text to support a stated opinion
e. Write persuasive text to support a stated opinion
  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
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. Prepare writing for display by revising and editing using rules, such as capital letters and periods
a. Improve writing by
  • Maintaining a topic
  • Adding ideas
a. Improve writing by
  • Maintaining a topic
  • Adding ideas
  • Deleting unrelated ideas
  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
  c. Prepare writing for publication
c. Prepare writing for publication
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 communicate 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
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
b. Acquire and use new vocabulary
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. Use effective details, words, and 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 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
    b. 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
    a. Revise own text for word choice
6. Use word lists as a source of information in writing
6. 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
  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
    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
 

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