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California
Writing Standards for grade 4 have incorporated:
Writing Strategies: "Students write clear, coherent
sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing
shows they consider the audience and purpose. Students progress through
the stages of the writing process (e.g., prewriting, drafting, revising,
editing successive versions)."
Writing Applications: "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."
Written Language Conventions: "Students write with a
command of standard English conventions appropriate to this grade
level," which includes sentence structure, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling.
It's not just writing ... it's written language.
Mrs. Watkins' program is based on the strong
foundations found in The 6+1 Traits of Writing. The
components of Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice,
and Conventions are stressed throughout the year. Mrs. Watkins
will be concentrating on the genres of personal narrative, summary,
response to literature, and report of information. This will be
supported in the ELA block as well.
Two Valuable
Resources for students:
Here are common and
High Frequency / Accountability Words
you need
to spell correctly 100% of the time ~ list can be printed.
34 Writing
Rules / Conventions (pdf format)
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WRITTEN LANGUAGE