Children will:
- Be introduced to the writing process
- Generate ideas for a story.
- Experience planning a story before writing it.
- Gather simple information about a topic.
- Use a story web to organize information.
- Identify beginning, middle, and end.
- Choose an appropriate title.
- Think of simple ways to improve a story.
- Publish stories through projects or crafts.
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Other Key Writing Concepts
- Completing predictable sentence starters
- Dictating a story
- Using simple graphic organizers
- Reading and writing color words
- Recognizing words that rhyme
- Identifying and using punctuation marks at the end of a sentence
- Beginning a sentence with a capital letter
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Children will:
- Become more familiar with the writing process
- Organize the main parts of a story before beginning to write.
- Include an introduction, body, and closing.
- Identify the main character in stories.
- Learn to add details to a story.
- Organize a story to include a problem and its solution.
- Write a letter.
- Write a personal narrative.
- Retell nursery rhymes and fairy tales in their own words.
- Publish stories through projects or crafts.
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Other Key Writing Concepts
- Paragraph form and indentation
- Practicing with punctuation
- Identifying the parts of a friendly letter
- Using words that rhyme
- Using a different voice to tell a story
- Choosing story endings
- Using a dictionary to help improve writing and spelling skills
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Children will:
- Gain confidence using the writing process
- Plan the main ingredients of a story before beginning to write.
- Learn to ask Who, What, When, Where, and Why? In order to add story details.
- Organize story details.
- Learn to keep a personal journal.
- Practice descriptive writing.
- Write a nonfiction article.
- Learn to write a simple report.
- Self-edit their own work.
- Publish stories through projects or crafts.
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Other Key Writing Concepts
- Practicing telling time to know when a story takes place
- Identifying describing words
- Summarizing contents of familiar books
- Collecting research facts about a specific topic
- Checking own work for correct spelling and punctuation
- Using standard spelling.
- Using self-editing tools
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