2010-11
September: Overall Writing Genre: Narrative Writing (Fall Assessment)
o Writing a Narrative Paragraph
o Sharing an Experience
- Why Write?
- Writer’s Notebook
- Understanding the Writing Process
o Prewriting: Selecting a Topic
o Writing: Developing the First Draft
o Revising: Improving Your Writing
o Editing: Checking for Conventions
o Publishing: Sharing your Writing
A. Understanding the Traits
o Ideas
o Organization
o Voice
o Word Choice
o Sentence Fluency
o Conventions
o Using a Rubric
4. A Writer’s Resource
o Selecting Ideas
o Improving Organization
o Enriching Your Writing Voice
o Strengthening Word Choice and Vocabulary
o Improving Sentence Fluency
o Enhancing Your Presentation
5. Building Effective Sentences
o Parts of a Sentence
o Writing Complete Sentences
o Fixing Sentence Problems
o Improving your Sentence Style
o Improving Sentence Fluency
o Punctuation: Capitalization, Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point
6. Constructing Strong Paragraphs
o The Parts of a Paragraph
o Types of Paragraphs
o Writing Effective Paragraphs
o Punctuation: Abbreviations, Commas, Semicolons & Colons
oOctober-December: Overall Theme: Research Writing
1. T-Chart
2. Building Research Skills
3. Outline
4. Writing a Research Paper
5. Writing a Summary Paragraph
6. Developing Multimedia Presentations
7. Punctuation: Numbers, Underlining & Italics, Apostrophes
1. Speaking and Writing to Learn
o Speaking to Learn
o Listening & Speaking
o Making Oral Presentations
o Writing to Learn
o Keeping Journals and Learning Logs
o Taking Notes
o Completing Writing Assignments
o Taking Tests?????
December/January: Overall Theme: Descriptive Writing (Mid-Year Assessment)
o Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
o Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Hyphens, Dashes, Parentheses, Ellipses
February/March: Overall Theme: Persuasive Writing
o Writing a Persuasive Paragraph
o Promoting a Cause
April: Overall Theme: Expository Writing & Poetry
o Writing an Expository Paragraph
o Explaining a Process OR Writing a Classification Essay
o Writing Poems
May/June: Overall Theme: Creative Writing
o Writing Stories
o Story Patterns
o Elements of Fiction