1st Grade Essential Writing Outcomes
Students will be able to:
* Write independently about self-selected topics – Small Moments
* Demonstrate proficiency in writing in the focus mode: Description
* Express a main idea with some details (Ideas)
* Organize writing with a beginning, middle, and end (Organization)
* Identify and write complete sentences (Sentence fluency)
* Use spelling strategies to learn accurate spelling of words in spelling lists and in writing
* Use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence and ending punctuation
* Write using legible handwriting