February Writing Goals

Today you will see the TWAS (This Week At School) journals coming home again!
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

4 ☆☆☆☆	3 ☆☆☆	2 ☆☆	1 ☆
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

4 ☆☆☆☆	3 ☆☆☆	2 ☆☆	1 ☆
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
Uses different types of punctuation correctly . ! , ? :	Tries to use exclamation marks, commas, and question marks . ! , ?	Tries to use exclamation marks and question marks . ! ?	Uses periods correctly .
Lots of different sentence beginnings	Starts most sentences with different words	Starts some sentences in different ways	Begins all sentences the same way
Has a descriptive title that grabs the attention	Has a descriptive title	Has a simple title	No title
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
Uses glue words and different verbs	Uses glue words	Simple sentences	Uses patterned sentences
6 or more sentences	5 sentences	3-4 sentences	1-2 sentences
Makes sense, is interesting, and uses descriptive words	Makes sense. Uses some descriptive words	Makes sense	Does not make sense

Here are the current expectations for Grade 1 & 2.
We will review them on Monday.
Have a great weekend!
Ms. Betty