Language Arts Writing

Description

The Alphabets

• Begin with the Alphabet
• Use pictures to spell words

What do writers write?

• Building Sentences
• Punctuation, using period, question mark, comma, exclamation point, quotation marks, and apostrophe
• Rules for Capital Letters, beginning of a sentence, the word, I, names of people, places, pets, days of the week, months of the year,
• Noun
• Pronouns
• Personal Pronouns
• Build a Sentence
• I can build a sentence

Fix it Up!

• Rewrite sentence correctly
• Begin each sentence with a capital letter
• Add correct ending punctuation

My sentences have swag!

• S – starts with a capital.
• W – written neatly.
• A – a space between words.
• G – given punctuation.
  

  Writing Informational

  • What writers do to influence people
  • write a piece that involves one topic
  • use drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to share information
  • publish a final copy
  • Print Media
  • Research

  Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Spelling

  • use left to right and top to bottom directionality in writing
  • begin to use capitalization at the beginning of sentences and punctuation (periods and question marks) at the end of sentences

  Writing Across Genres

  • write or dictate to describe familiar persons, places, objects, or experiences explore prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
  • write legibly in manuscript own first and last names with initial capital letters, self-selected and teacher-selected words, and upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
  • begin to develop a draft from pre-writing
  • begin to develop a sense of closure
  • begin to use describing words
  • pre-write orally or in writing to generate ideas (graphic organizers and pictures)

  Response to Literature

  • retell a story orally, through pictures, or in writing
  • make connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text- to-world