We have be working on refining our writing skills through personal writing goals.
Students should know which one of these they have been working on.
Please sign and comment over the weekend.
Grade
1 Writing Expectations
January-March 2020
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 Uses many details |
 Uses more details |
 Uses a few
details |
 Uses very little
detail |
 Uses capitals at
the beginning of sentences and for names |
 Uses capitals and
periods correctly most of the time |
 Uses capitals and
periods correctly some of the time |
 Backwards and uppercase
letters in words |
 Uses periods at
the end of all sentences and tries to use other punctuation |
 Uses periods at
the end of all sentences |
 Uses periods most
of the time |
 No periods |
 Spells word wall
words correctly and uses personal dictionary |
 Spells word wall
words correctly most of the time |
 Spells word wall
words correctly some of the time |
 Uses 1-2 word
wall words correctly |
 Starts sentences in
a wide variety of ways |
 Starts most sentences
in different ways |
 Starts sentences with
some different words |
 Starts sentences
with the same word |
 Writes 6 or more
sentences |
 Writes 4-5
sentences |
 Writes 3-4
sentences |
 Writes 1-2
sentences with support |
 Always uses
finger spaces correctly and spaces writing correctly |
 Always uses
finger spaces correctly |
 Uses finger
spaces most of the time |
 Does not use
finger spaces |
Grade 2 Writing Checklist
January-March 2020
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Always uses capital letters correctly including for
proper nouns |
Uses capitals at the
beginning of sentences |
Uses capitals at the
beginning of sentences most of the time |
Uses capitals some of the
time |
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Uses different types of
punctuation correctly
. ! , ? :
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Tries to use exclamation
marks, commas, and question marks
. ! , ?
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Tries to use exclamation
marks and question marks
. ! ?
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Uses periods correctly
.
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Lots of different
sentence beginnings |
Starts most sentences
with different words |
Starts some sentences in
different ways |
Begins all sentences the
same way |
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Has a descriptive title
that grabs the attention |
Has a descriptive title |
Has a simple title |
No title |
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Spells all words
correctly, uses personal dictionary |
Spells all word wall
words correctly |
Spells most word wall
words correctly |
Spells some word wall
words correctly |
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Uses glue words and
different verbs |
Uses glue words |
Simple sentences |
Uses patterned sentences |
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6 or more sentences |
5 sentences |
3-4 sentences |
1-2 sentences |
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Makes sense, is interesting, and uses descriptive words
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Makes sense. Uses some descriptive words
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Makes sense
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Does not make sense
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Here are the current expectations for Grade 1 & 2.
We will review them on Monday.
Have a great weekend!
Ms. Betty
