| Writing to Express
Grades 4 - 5 Students demonstrate their ability to write to express personal ideas by selecting a form and its appropriate elements (e.g., plot, dialogue, rhyme scheme, etc.). Print Version (Acrobat 4k)
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| Create a paragraph that guides and informs the reader’s understanding of key ideas and evidence and that presents effective introductory and concluding sentences, logical sequencing of ideas, and transitional words |
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| Create a clear organizing structure that includes descriptions placed in a logical, chronological, or narrative sequence in ways that help the reader follow the line of thought |
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| Connect relevant descriptions, including sensory details, personal experiences, observations, and/or research-based information, linking paragraphs and ideas in ways that make a topic or message clear to the reader |
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| Write to express personal ideas in stories, poems, plays, that relate ideas, observations, or memories, using rhyme and rhythm and/or narrative strategies such as dialogue and description and that provide a context to enable the reader to imagine the world of the event or experience |
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Improve the organization and consistency in ideas among paragraphs by revising writing based on given or self-generated criteria and on others’ responses |
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