Children will write about topics that are personally significant.
They are beginning to consider their audience. They will learn to deal
with conventions such as spelling and punctuation. Second grade students are
expected to produce recount writing and early narrative writing.
Recount Story:
Personal recount (retells), Reports news (Who, what, when, where, why),
Nonfiction recounts (Factual story with a beginning, middle and end).
Narrative Story:
Tells a "made up" fantasy story about. . . (Setting, characters, problem,
solution).
Handwriting:
D'Nealian manuscript (printing) Capital and lower case letters and numbers.
Conventions:
Capital letters, periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas.
Sentence structure:
Verbs, nouns, pronouns, proper nouns, adjectives.
*While constructing class made, and individual books, the students will be using
the 6+1 writing process. The 6+1 Traits describe the key qualities of strong
writing.
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· Ideas
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· Voice
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· Word
Choice
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· Sentence
Fluency
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· Presentation
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· Conventions
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There will be many opportunities to organize, transcribe, and edit their
thoughts in writing.
In the early stages of writing children learn to generate and organize ideas,
produce a "rough" draft (sloppy copy), edit, proofread, revise and publish a
"final" draft (neat sheet).
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