WR03 Essential Skills

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Contents 1 Writing Essential Skills for Level 3 2 First Quarter 3 Second Quarter 4 Third Quarter 5 Fourth Quarter 6 Every Quarter

Writing Essential Skills for Level 3

First Quarter

Students will be able to:

• Write correct sentences, including: (3.c)

• subject and a predicate, C,SF (3.b)
• correct punctuation. C (3.d.2)

• Write a paragraph that will include:

• indent, C (2.e)
• use margins, C (2.e)
• use a topic sentence, I,O (2.b)
• express a main idea with details. I,O (2.b)

• Capitalize the pronoun I. C (3.d.1)
• Write a friendly letter, an expository paragraph and a narrative paragraph. (2.a)
• Respond to a literature selection. (2)
• Use correct capitalization (3.d1)

• sentence beginnings
• proper nouns

Second Quarter

Students will be able to:

• Identify nouns including: (3.a)

• singular and plural nouns, C(3.a)
• possessive nouns, C(3.a)
• as the subject of a sentence. C,SF(3.b)

• Identify verbs including:

• action verbs, C(3.a)
• forms of the verb “be’, C(3.a)
• as the simple predicate of a sentence. C,SF(3.b)

• Recognize subject /verb agreement. C(3.b)
• Write a personal narrative. (2.a)
• Write a how to paragraph. (2.a)
• Respond to a literature selection. (2)

• summarizing
• comparing
• main idea and details
• adding events
• making connections

• Spell correctly when writing (3.e)

Third Quarter

Students will be able to:

• Identify helping verbs. C(3.a)
• Identify and correctly use pronouns, C,WC (3.b)

• including object and subject pronouns.

• Identify and use adjectives. C,WC(3.b)
• Write narrative, descriptive, and how-to paragraphs. C,P,O (2.a)

Fourth Quarter

Students will be able to:

• Identify and use adjectives and adverbs. C,WC(3.b)
• Write developed paragraphs.

• including, expository, persuasive, descriptive and responding to literature C,O,I,P (2.a)

Every Quarter

Students will be able to:

• Increase their writing vocabulary:

• identify base words, prefixes and suffixes, WC(2.c)
• determine compound words, WC(2.c)
• use and identify synonyms and antonyms. WC(2.c)

• Demonstrate editing and revision skills: (3.d)

• look for grammatical errors, C(3.b)
• enhance sentences V, WC,SF, (2.f)
• proofread for punctuation mistakes. C,P(3.d.2)