WR07 Essential Skills
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Writing Essential Skills for Level 7
First Trimester 8/20 to 11/13
Student will be able to:
- Understand Step up to Writing as a way to organize a response to standardized tests
- Be able to write long organized papers with more than one paragraph
- Identify parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions (3.a).
- Use standard English usage in writing: subject/verb agreement, pronoun referents, modifiers, homonyms, and homophones, active and precise verbs, and pronoun/antecedent agreement (3.b).
- Write in complete sentences (3.c).
- Use a variety of sentence structures with varied length (2.f).
- Punctuate correctly (3.d).
- Capitalize correctly (3.d.1).
- Use conventions of spelling (3.e).
- Be introduced to the 6 traits of writing:
- Voice: audience and purpose of writing depends on the level of voice
- Word choice: prefixes, suffixes, and roots oh my! Spelling tricks, How to figure out words and expand your vocabulary
- Organization: structure of an essay
- Ideas: know what to write
- Conventions: making a finished paper look polished and nice with periods, commas, question marks, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and other punctuation marks
- Sentence fluency: Does the paper read smoothly? How can we check to make sure this is quality writing?
- Start using the knowledge of six traits in their writing
Second Trimester 11/16 to 2/26
Student will be able to:
- Choose a range of words that are precise and vivid (2.c).
- Recognize that language skills successfully support meaning. There should be few, if any, errors in subject/verb and pronoun/antecedent agreement; dangling/misplaced modifiers (3.b); end punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, semicolons, and colons (3.d.2).
- Organize ideas so there is an inviting introduction, a logical arrangement of ideas, and a satisfying conclusion (2.b.2).
- Use transitions to link ideas (2.h).
- Write in a variety of genres such as narratives, informational brochures, short stories, expository essays, descriptions, persuasive writing, and poetry for specific purposes--to entertain, to persuade, and to inform (2.a).
- Punctuate correctly (3.d).
- Capitalize correctly (3.d.1).
- Use conventions of spelling (3.e).
- Continue the use of the 6 traits of writing
- Continue the use of Step Up to Writing
- identify all the parts of speech
- Focus on the noun (types of nouns) and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the verb (auxiliary verbs)and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the adjective and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the pronoun and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the article and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the adverb and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the conjunction and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the preposition and interject and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the subject and predicate of a sentence
- Focus on the types of sentences (complex, compound, compound-complex)
- be able to pick the pieces of a sentence apart by diagramming a sentence
- Focus on punctuation marks and how to look for common errors
Third Trimester 3/1-5/28
Student will be able to:
- Continue to write in a variety of genres such as narratives, informational brochures, short stories, expository essays, descriptions, persuasive writing, and poetry for specific purposes--to entertain, to persuade, and to inform (2.a).
- Write with a voice appropriate to purpose and audience (2a.1).
- Meet all requirements of the prompt: stay fully focused on topic; include relevant information; provide main ideas and specific details that move beyond the obvious (2.g); include an inviting introduction, logical arrangements of ideas and satisfying conclusion (2.b); and maintain a clear order with transitions between ideas (2.h).
- Punctuate correctly (3.d).
- Capitalize correctly (3.d.1).
- Use conventions of spelling (3.e).
- Master how Step Up to Writing helps them organize writing
- Master which traits students are having trouble with and learn how to self correct them
