Writing/Escritura
WRITING STRATEGIES: Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing shows they consider the audience and purpose. Students<?xml:namespace prefix = o />
progress through the stages of the writing process (e.g., pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing
successive versions).
Organization and Focus:
- Select a focus when writing.
- Use descriptive words when writing.
Penmanship:
- Print legibly and space letters, words, and sentences appropriately.
- 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. Using the writing strategies of
grade one outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students:
- Write brief narratives (e.g., fictional, autobiographical) describing an experience.
- Write brief expository descriptions of a real object, person, place, or event using sensory
details.
- WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS: Students write and speak
with a command of standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level.
Sentence Structure:
- Write and speak in complete, coherent sentences.
Grammar:
- Identify and correctly use singular and plural nouns.
- Identify and correctly use contractions (e.g., isn’t, aren’t, can’t, won’t) and singular possessive
pronouns (e.g., my/mine, his/her, hers, your/s) in writing and speaking.
Punctuation:
- Distinguish between declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative sentences.
- Use a period, exclamation point, or question mark at the end of sentences.
- Use knowledge of the basic rules of punctuation and capitalization when writing.
Capitalization:
- Capitalize the first word of a sentence, names of people, and the pronoun I.
Spelling:
- Spell three- and four-letter short-vowel words and grade-level-appropriate sight words