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WRITING

GRADE 3

1.0. WRITING STRATEGIES: Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing considers audience and purpose. They successfully use the stages of the writing process (i.e., pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing successive versions).

Organization and Focus:

1.1 Create a single paragraph:

a. Develop a topic sentence.

b. Include simple supporting facts and details.

Research and Technology:

1.3. understand the structure and organization of various reference materials (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, encyclopedia)

Revising and Evaluating Strategies:

1.4. revise drafts to improve the coherence and the logical progression of ideas, using an established rubric

2.0. WRITING APPLICATIONS (GENRES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS): Students write compositions that describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the drafting, research, and organizational strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0.

GRADE 3

1.0. WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS: Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions that are appropriate to each grade level.

Sentence Structure:

1.1. understand and be able to use complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in writing and speaking

Punctuation:

1.5. punctuate dates, city and state, and titles of books correctly

1.6 Use commas in dates, locations, and addresses and for items in a series.

Capitalization:

1.7. capitalize geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events correctly

Spelling: