WR08 Essential Skills
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Writing Essential Skills for Level 8
First Quarter
Student will be able to:
- Write in a variety of genres such as narratives, essays, stories, and letters for specific purposes (for example: to analyze, to evaluate, to entertain, to persuade, to inform, or to explain). Stories and Narratives Writing Standard 2.a
- Organize writing so that it has an inviting introduction, a logical progression of ideas, and a purposeful conclusion. Writing Standard 2.b
- Plan, draft, revise, and edit for a legible final copy. Writing Standard 2.d
- Write to meet all requirements of the prompt. Stay focused on topic. Include relevant information. Provide main ideas and specific, elaborated details that move beyond the obvious. Develop ideas and content with significant details, examples, and/or reasons to address a prompt. Writing Standard 2.g
- Review parts of speech, such as nouns, pronouns, verb tenses, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. Writing Standard 3.a
- Write in complete sentences. Writing Standard 3.c
- Use conventions correctly (for example: all capitalization; apostrophes in contractions; quotation marks; underlining/italics; commas in a series, dates, addresses, direct address, letters, introductory words/phrases, in dialogue, and in compound and complex sentences. Writing Standard 3.d.1 and 2
- Use conventional spelling. Writing Standard 3.e
- Use paragraphing correctly so that each paragraph is differentiated by indenting or blocking and includes one major, focused idea. Writing Standard 3.f
Second Quarter
Student will be able to:
- Write in a format (for example: lab reports, summaries, formal letters, and memos) and with a voice appropriate to purpose and audience. Writing Standard 2.a1 or 2.e
- Use accurate, precise vocabulary appropriate for audience and purpose; use figurative language, imagery and/or striking language. Writing Standard 2.c
- Vary sentence structure and length to enhance meaning and fluency. Standard 2.f
Third Quarter
Student will be able to:
- Maintain a clear order with transitions between ideas. Writing Standard 2.h
- Use standard English in writing including pronoun/antecedent agreement, subject/verb agreement, regular/irregular verbs, and modifiers, active and passive verbs, and parallel structure. Writing Standard 3.b
Fourth Quarter
Student will be able to:
- Essential skills are reviewed and applied through repeated practice and reteaching as needed.
- Additional writing formats and genres are instructed and practiced.
- Students prepare and give presentations for Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
