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 2:
1. Generate ideas for writing: hearing stories, recalling experiences, brainstorming, and drawing.
2. Observe the modeling of writing
3. Begin to develop an awareness of simple story structures and author’s voice.
4. Use sentences to convey ideas in writing.
5. Maintain the use of a basic writing process to develop writing.
6. Use graphic organizers to assist with planning writing.
7. Compose readable first drafts
8. Use everyday words in appropriate written context.
9. Reread drafts for meaning, to add details, and to improve correctness.
10. Focus on elaboration as a strategy for improving writing.
11. Participate with peers to comment on and react to each other’s writing.
12. Use a simple checklist to improve elements of own writing.
13. Use 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 2:
1. Produce finished writings to share with classmates and/or for publication.
2. Produce stories from personal experiences.
3. Produce a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.
4. Write nonfiction pieces, such as letters, procedures, biographies, or simple reports.
5. Organize favorite work samples in a writing folder or portfolio.
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 2:
1. Use correct end point punctuation.
2. Apply basic rules of capitalization.
3. Use correct spelling of some high frequency words.
4. Apply sound/symbol relationships to writing words.
5. Recognize and apply basic spelling patterns.
6. Write legibly to meet district standards.
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 2:
1. Create written texts for others to read.
2. Generate ideas and write on topics in forms appropriate to science, social studies, or other subject areas.
3. Use writing as a tool for learning self-discovery and reflection.
4. Use reading and technology to support writing.
5. Write in a variety of simple genres to satisfy personal, academic, and social needs, such as letters, plays, procedures, biographies, or simple reports.

Link to Standard 3.2 Grade 1

Link to Standard 3.2 Grade 3

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