Writing Process

Writing Elements

Writing Application

Determine the purpose of a piece of writing (to entertain, to inform, to communicate, to persuade)

Express ideas that are clear and directly related to the target

Write a story based on real or imagined events, observations, or memories that includes: characters, setting, plot, sensory details, clear language, logical sequence of events, problem and solution)

Use graphic organizers to plan writing

Use a structure that fits the type of writing (friendly letter, narrative, lines of poetry)

Write a simple summary from informational texts, graphs, tables or maps

Maintain a record (list, picture, journal, folder, notebook) of ideas

Place details appropriately and sequentially to support the main idea

Write an expository paragraph that contains (a topic sentence, supporting details, relevant information)

Use time management strategies to produce a writing product within a set time period

Write simple and compound sentences

Write communications in an appropriate format for a specific audience and purpose, including: thank you notes, friendly letters, formal letters, messages, invitations

Use a prewriting plan to develop a draft with a main idea and supporting details

Construct a paragraph that groups sentences around a topic (topic sentence, supporting details, concluding sentence)

Address an envelope for correspondence that includes an appropriate return address and an appropriate recipient address

Organize details into a logical sequence

Use capital letters for (names, days, months, holidays, titles, names of places, abbreviations, literary titles)

Write a reflection to a literature selection (journal entry, book review)

Evaluate the draft for use of ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice and sentence fluency

Punctuate endings of sentences, use commas to punctuate items in a series, greetings and closings of a letter, dates and introductory words

Write a book report or review that may identify (main idea, characters, setting, sequence of events, problem/solution)

Apply appropriate tools to refine the draft (peer review, checklists, rubrics)

Use apostrophes to punctuate contractions and singular possessive

Organize notes into a meaningful sequence

Identify capitalization, punctuation, spelling and grammar errors in the draft

Spell high frequency words correctly

Write an informational report that includes introductory statement, main ideas, relevant details, conclusion and list of resources

Use resources (dictionary, word lists, spelling/grammar checkers) to correct conventions

Use common spelling patterns/generalizations to spell words correctly including word families, regular plurals, r-controlled, diphthong, digraphs, CVC words, CCVC and CVCC words, affixes, contractions, words ending with silent e, words that have silent letters, compound words, prefixes and suffixes (use resources to spell correctly)

Share the writing with the intended audience (read aloud, display, publish, mail, send, perform)

Identify and use the following parts of speech correctly (nouns, action verbs, personal pronouns, adjectives, conjunctions, adverbs, main/simple subject and predicate)

Use margins and spacing to enhance the final product

Write legibly

Reading Process

Comprehending Stories

Comprehending Information

Students can read a grade level text at a fluency rate of 110 words per min. with at least 90% accuracy

Students can read and understand a short dialogue between 2 characters

Students can determine the meanings, pronunciation, syllabication, antonyms, synonyms, etc., using reference aids

Students can alphabetize a series of words to the 3^rd letter

Students can use reading strategies to decode text

Students can recognize distinguishing features of a paragraph

Students can fluently read multi-syllabic words using letter-sound knowledge

Students can predict what might happen in a story and check predictions

Students can distinguish fact from opinion

Students can use common phonics rules to decode words

Students can ask relevant questions to comprehend a text

Students can restate information from a reading passage

Students can recognize the first 350 high frequency words

Students can sequence a series of events

Students can summarize a reading selection in own words

Students can read independently for a period of time

Students can identify main idea and details in expository and persuasive texts

Students can follow, provide and evaluate a set of multi-step written directions for completeness

Students can determine the words that make up a contraction

Students can compare characters, settings, problems, solutions across stories

Students can identify persuasive words

Students can identify base words to help define vocabulary words

Students can identify rhyme, rhythm, repetition and sensory images in poetry

Students can identify cause and effect

Students can read common abbreviations

Students can read with expression and inflection

Students can locate information by using organizational features

Students can identify meaning of common abbreviations

Students can identify the speaker or narrator in a selection

Students can identify a variety of reference resources to answer questions and gather information

Students can use simple prefixes and suffixes to define words

Students can differentiate between genre based on their structural elements

Students can locate specific information from graphic features

Students can complete simple analogies using antonyms and synonyms

Students can compare real-life events with characters and different cultures

Students can interpret information in functional documents

Students can determine meaning of antonyms, synonyms, homonyms

Number Sense

Computation

Geometry

Measurement

Data Analysis

Students can read and write whole numbers through 999,999

Students can write the expanded notation for numbers through 999,999

Students can name concrete objects and pictures of 3D solid shapes

Students can tell time to the minute using an analog clock

Students can construct a horizontal bar, vertical bar, pictograph or tally chart

Students can order numbers through 999,999

Students can add a column of 3 digit numbers

Students can describe the relationship between 2D and 3D shapes

Students can estimate length and weight in standard units

Students can interpret line plots, pictographs, or single bar graphs

Students can sort odd and even numbers through 999,999

Students can find a missing addend, subtrahend, sum, difference

Students can recognize same shape in different flips and rotations

Students can record and compare estimated and actual measurement of objects

Students can answer and formulate questions about graphs

Students can compare numbers with <>= through 999,999

Students can subtract from $20.00

Students can identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes

Students can select and measure using the appropriate unit of measurement (cm, m, km) liters, grams

Students can predict the outcome in a probability experiment

Students can round numbers to nearest 1, 10, 100

Students can add and subtract 2 3-digit numbers with regrouping

Students can determine the area and perimeter using rectangular arrays

Students can compare units of measure to determine more or less

Students can make a diagram to represent the number of combinations available

Students can count money through $20.00 using manipulatives  

Students can show multiplication using arrays, repeated addition,  or counting by multiples

Identify points on a grid using ordered pairs

Students can determine the relationship for (cups, and gallons) (ounces and pounds)

Students can read and order 3 or more decimals to the hundredth place

Students can identify factors or factor pairs for numbers to 24

Determine the passage of time across months (units of days, weeks, months) using a calendar

Students can determine equivalency among fractions, decimals, and percents

Show division as separating elements of a set into smaller equal sets, sharing equally or repeated subtraction

Record temperature to nearest degree in Fahrenheit and Celsius

Compare 2 decimals through hundredths using models, illustrations or symbols

Students can write fact families for multiplication and division through 10

Determine perimeter using a rectangular array

Compare 2 fractions with like denominators

Students can state multiplication and division facts through 10

Represent area using rectangular array

Order 3 or more fractions with like denominators (halves, thirds, fourths, eights, tenths)

Students can add and subtract proper fractions with like denominators

Students can solve word problems using grade level skills

Add or subtract money through $20.00