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Identify and define diphthongs, consonant
digraphs, vowel digraphs, and affixes
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Form expanded paragraphs with main ideas
and supporting details
•
Indicate paragraphs consistently
•
Use abbreviations appropriately
Ideas
•
Choose and develop a topic confidently
•
Remain focused on one topic
•
Use at least three specific details to enhance or
support topic
•
Maintain an idea journal
Organization
•
Write stories with a clear beginning, middle,
and end
•
Use paragraphs to indicate new idea with a topic
sentence and supporting details
•
Connect paragraphs with logical sequence
•
Consistently use transitional sentences and
phrases to connect related ideas
Voice
•
Identify voice in other’s writing
•
Write in an engaging, compelling manner
•
Show self through writing
•
Communicate own perspective and personal
preferences
•
Describe own experiences to reflect personality
through writing
Word Choice
•
Use patterns and vocabulary from grade
level appropriate literature and nonfiction in
own writing
•
Use figurative language including similes and
metaphors
•
Use rhyme, rhythm, and pattern
•
Use imagery and sensory words
Sentence Fluency
•
Use a variety of sentence beginnings and
lengths
•
Use more developed sentence structures
•
Incorporate a variety of sentence types
including simple and compound sentences
Presentation
•
Consistently use correct cursive letter formation
•
Use format suited to audience
•
Use margins in final copies
•
Consistently include first and last name and
date on work
Styles/Audiences
•
Write for a variety of audiences including
outside/distance audiences (e.g., businesses,
etc.)
•
Respond to a prompt
•
Write in a variety of creative forms: jokes, plays,
fairy tales, tall tales and fables, poems, journals,
narratives, friendly letters, lists, stories
•
Write in a variety of informative forms:
newspaper articles, persuasive papers, research,
brochures, observations, biographies,
procedures, and directions
•
Cite sources when writing reports
•
Identify the kinds of documents required to
write in a career setting
•
Write and maintain assignment lists and
personal schedule
•
Show an awareness of audience
Prewriting
•
Organize and plan writing using the following:
•
Story mapping
•
Discussion
•
Webbing
•
Outlining
•
Brainstorming
•
Role playing
•
Recall of experience
•
Listing
•
Jotting
•
Free writing
•
Drawing
•
Graphic organizers
•
Visuals
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Drafts
•
Refer to prewriting activities while writing first
draft
•
Use own drawing, writing, and spelling to
create a rough draft
•
Draft fluently for increasing periods of time
•
Use temporary spelling, but is able to self-
correct
•
Write complete phrases, sentences, and
thoughts
•
Focus on content, not convention
Revises
•
Read orally to self to check for clarity
•
See written text as a product to be worked on
and improved
•
Conference with peer or teacher
•
Listen to audience response and considers
change in text
•
Change or add language to enhance text
and style
•
Revise for two or three traits of the seven-traits
model
Edits
•
Correct common errors in spelling, punctuation,
and capitalization
•
Use dictionary, thesaurus, technology, and
other available references
•
Make appropriate editing changes
•
Use proofreading marks
Publishing
•
Consistently reflect on own writing to
determine growth and improvement
•
Maintain and reflect upon personal writing
portfolio
Evaluating/Analyzing Self
•
Read and discuss own work
•
See self as a writer
•
Use the seven traits to reflect on and improve
writing
•
Assess progress and set writing goals for
own writing
•
See writing as an ongoing process
Evaluating/Analyzing Others
•
Use the seven-traits model as criteria to assess
writing
•
Review writing of authors to analyze effective
writing
•
Make specific statements about writing of
others (e.g., I like ______because ______; I am
confused about ______)
•
Listen while others share
MATH
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Use the four operations with whole numbers to
solve problems
•
Interpret a multiplication equation as a
comparison
•
Multiply or divide to solve word problems
involving multiplicative comparison
•
Multistep word problems posed with whole
numbers and having whole-number answers
using the four operations, including problems in
which remainders must be interpreted
•
Use and describe the use of appropriate
estimation strategies to solve various math
problems
•
Interpret and evaluate mathematical expressions
that contain parentheses
•
Understand that an equation with two variables
is a formula for determining the second number
when the value for the first variable is given
•
Know how to identify, locate, and plot ordered
pairs of whole numbers on a graph or on the
first quadrant of a coordinate system
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples
•
Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the
range 1–100; recognize that a whole number is
a multiple of each of its factors
Generate and analyze patterns
•
Generate a number or shape pattern that
follows a given rule
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