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First Grade Writing
First Grade Writing Goal
We will become better writers by writing stories, poems, opinions, and facts that excite our readers.
What We're Doing This Quarter
- Write to express personal ideas in stories, poems and other writings to convey a message with details.
- Students will independently write for different purposes. They will write to inform and to express personal ideas.
- Students will be working on listening for beginning, middle and ending sounds when writing unknown words. The students will also begin using the word wall to spell the high frequency words correctly throughout their writing.
First Grade Writing Rubric
Quarter 1
Spelling expectation: The student demonstrates mastery of beginning and ending consonant sounds when using “First Grade Spelling”.
Target goals:
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First Name
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Date
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Picture
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Labels, if appropriate, and/or
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Words about the picture (one sentence)
Other Writing Traits:
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Illustrations support writing
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Spacing between words
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Beginning to use punctuation
Quarter 2
Spelling Expectation: The student demonstrates mastery of beginning and ending consonants, attempts to sound out medial (vowel) sounds, and there is evidence of some use of the word wall.
Target goals:
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First name and last name
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Date
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Picture
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Labels, if appropriate, and/or
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2 sentences with punctuation
Other Writing Traits:
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Illustrations support writing
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Spacing between words
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Sentences are related to a single topic
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Includes 1 or 2 details related to story or topic
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Logical sequencing
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Beginning to use uppercase letters to begin a sentence
