STANDARD 3.2: Language Arts Literacy

Language Arts Literacy

Mission: Learning to read, write, speak, listen, and view critically, strategically and creatively enables students to discover personal and shared meaning throughout their lives.

Standard 3.2 Writing

All students will write in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.

Big Idea: Writing is the process of communicating in print for a variety of audiences and purposes.
3.2 A. Writing as a Process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, postwriting)
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do good writers express themselves? How does process shape the writer’s product?	- Good writers develop and refine their ideas for thinking, learning, communicating, and aesthetic expression.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 1:
1. Begin to generate ideas for writing through talking, sharing, and drawing.
2. Observe the modeling of writing.
3. Begin to use a basic writing process to develop writing.
4. Use simple sentences to convey ideas.
5. Increase fluency (ability to write ideas easily) to improve writing.
6. Continue to use pictures, developmental spelling or conventional text to create writing drafts.
7. Revisit pictures and writings to add detail.
8. Begin to mimic an author’s voice and patterns.
9. Begin to use a simple checklist to improve writing with teacher support
10. Begin to use simple computer writing applications during some parts of the writing process.
3.2 B. Writing as a Product (resulting in a formal product or publication)
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do writers develop a well written product?	- Good writers use a repertoire of strategies that enables them to vary form and style, in order to write for different purposes, audiences, and contexts.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 1:
1. Produce finished writings to share with class and/or for publication.
2. Produce stories from personal experiences.
3. Show and talk about own writing for classroom audience.
4. Collect favorite works to place in personal writing folder.
3.2 C. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do rules of language affect communication?	- Rules, conventions of language, help readers understand what is being communicated.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 1:
1. Write all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet from memory.
2. Begin to use basic punctuation and capitalization.
3. Apply sound/symbol relationships to writing words.
4. Use developmental spelling or phonics-based knowledge to spell independently, when necessary.
5. Develop awareness of conventional spelling.
6. Use left-to-right and top-to-bottom directionality and use appropriate spacing between words
3.2 D. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes (exploring a variety of forms)
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- Why does a writer choose a particular form of writing?	- A writer selects a form based on audience and purpose.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 1:
1. Create written texts for others to read.
2. Produce a variety of writings, including stories, descriptions, and journal entries, showing relationships between illustrations and printed text.

Link to Standard 3.2 Grade K

Link to Standard 3.2 Grade 2

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