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W Writing
- Learning Outcome
- 2.W.1 Write routinely over brief time frames and for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences; apply reading standards to write in response to literature and nonfiction texts.
- Handwriting
- 2.W.2.1 Write legibly by forming letters correctly and spacing words and sentences properly.
- Writing Genres: Argumentative, Informative, and Narrative
- 2.W.3.1 Write a logically connected paragraph or paragraphs, that introduce an opinion, with a concluding statement or section and multiple reasons to explain why a certain course of action should be followed.
- 2.W.3.2 Write a paragraph or paragraphs on a topic or main idea that introduce a topic, provide facts and details about the topic, and provide a concluding statement.
- 2.W.3.3 Develop topics for friendly letters, stories, poems, and other narrative purposes that
- 2.W.3.3.a Include a beginning.
- 2.W.3.3.b Use temporal words to signal event order (e.g., first of all).
- 2.W.3.3.c Provide details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings.
- 2.W.3.3.d Provide an ending.
- The Writing Process
- 2.W.4 Apply the writing process to
- 2.W.4.a Generate a draft by developing, selecting and organizing ideas relevant to topic, purpose, and genre; revise writing, using appropriate reference materials, by adding details (e.g., organization, sentence structure, word choice); edit writing for format and conventions (e.g., spelling, capitalization, usage, punctuation); and provide feedback to other writers.
- 2.W.4.b Use available technology to publish legible documents.
- 2.W.4 Apply the writing process to
- The Research Process: Finding, Assessing, Synthesizing, and Reporting Information
- 2.W.5 With support, conduct short research on a topic.
- 2.W.5.a Find information on a topic of interest (e.g., cardinals).
- 2.W.5.b Identify various visual and text reference sources
- 2.W.5.c Organize, summarize, and present the information, choosing from a variety of formats
- 2.W.5 With support, conduct short research on a topic.
- Conventions of Standard English: Grammar and Usage / Capitalization, Punctuation, and Spelling
- 2.W.6.1 Demonstrate command of English grammar and usage, focusing on:
- 2.W.6.1a Nouns/Pronouns — Writing sentences that include common, proper, possessive, and collective nouns, irregular plural nouns, and personal and possessive pronouns.
- 2.W.6.1b Verbs
- 2.W.6.1b.1 Writing sentences that use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs.
- 2.W.6.1b.2 Understanding the functions of different types of verbs (e.g., action, linking) in sentences.
- 2.W.6.1c Adjectives/Adverbs — Writing sentences that use adjectives and adverbs.
- 2.W.6.1e Usage — Writing correctly complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.
- 2.W.6.2 Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling focusing on:
- 2.W.6.2a Capitalization — Capitalizing greetings, months and days of the week, titles and initials in names, and proper nouns, including holidays and geographic names.
- 2.W.6.2b Punctuation
- 2.W.6.2b.1 Correctly using a period, question mark, or exclamation mark at the end of a sentence.
- 2.W.6.2b.2 Using an apostrophe to form contractions and singular possessive nouns.
- 2.W.6.2b.3 Using commas in greetings and closings of letters, dates, and to separate items in a series.
- 2.W.6.2c Spelling
- 2.W.6.2c.1 Correctly spelling words with short and long vowel sounds, r-controlled vowels, and consonant-blend patterns.
- 2.W.6.2c.2 Generalizing learned spelling patterns (e.g., word families) when writing words.
- 2.W.6.2c.3 Correctly spelling common irregularly-spelled grade-appropriate high frequency words.
- 2.W.6.1 Demonstrate command of English grammar and usage, focusing on: