ELAR 2.11
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:
- (1) plan a first draft by generating ideas for writing
such as drawing and brainstorming;
- (A) develop drafts into a focused piece of writing by:
- (B) organizing with structure; and
- (i) developing an idea with specific and relevant details;
- (ii) revise drafts by adding, deleting, or rearranging words, phrases, or sentences;
- (C) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
- (D) complete sentences with subject-verb agreement;
- (i) past, present, and future verb tense;
- (ii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
- (iii) adjectives, including articles;
- (iv) capitalization of months, days of the week, and the salutation and conclusion of a letter;
- (v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey place;
- (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
- (vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;
- (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects and predicates;
- (ix) end punctuation, apostrophes in contractions, and commas with items in a series and in dates; and
- (x) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
- (xi) publish and share writing.
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Exploring Types of Verbs Unit Plan
This English Language Arts unit explores several types of verbs including action, helping, linking, irregular, simple tense, and perfect tense verbs. This unit is intended for upper-elementary students that have some prior knowledge of action verbs.
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Exploring Procedural Texts Unit Plan
This English Language Arts unit has been designed to introduce procedural texts to younger students. It addresses the purpose, structure and language features of instructions and recipes.
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Exploring Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 1 and Year 2
This English unit has been designed to introduce the informative genre to younger students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of information reports.
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Dressing Up Sentences for Narrative Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language to add additional detail to sentences.
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Animal Fact Book - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently create an informative fact book about an animal.
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Animal Information Report - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple information report about an animal in pairs.
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Action, Helping, and Linking Verbs
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify action, helping, and linking verbs.
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Publishing a Recipe Book
A 60 minute lesson in which students will publish a simple recipe for bush stew.
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Independent Writing - How to Make Nature Stew
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a recipe for nature stew.
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Guided Writing - How To Make Fruit Salad
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple recipe for fruit salad in small groups.
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Modeled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.
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Simon Says!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore action verbs, common nouns, and adverbial phrases in procedures.
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Personal Recounts - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently construct a simple personal recount about a familiar experience.
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Adding Detail Using Describing Words
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how descriptive words, such as adjectives, can add detail to a personal recount.
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Action Verbs in Simple Past Tense
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how action verbs can be expressed in simple past tense.
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Eat Your Peas - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently construct a simple opinion piece about a familiar situation.
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What Pet Should I Get? - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple opinion piece on a familiar situation in pairs.
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Strong Words Make Strong Opinions
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how word choice can be used to strengthen an opinion.
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Opinion Piece Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of opinion pieces.
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Let's Build a Sentence
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write simple and compound sentences.
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Building Compound Sentences
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a compound sentence is made up of two or more main clauses joined together by a conjunction.
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Using Adjectives to Describe a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use adjectives to describe the personality and appearance of characters.
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Using Adjectives
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that an adjective provides information about a noun and is often called a describing word.
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Building Simple Sentences
A 60 minute lesson in which students will build a simple sentence.
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Capital Letters and Punctuation - Fix It!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that capital letters and punctuation are used to build sentences.
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Capital Letters and Punctuation
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that capital letters and different types of punctuation are used to build sentences.
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Common and Proper Nouns
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a noun is a naming word used for a person, place, or object.
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Very Important Verbs
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a verb describes an action in clauses or sentences.
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What is a Sentence?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a simple sentence is a group of words that contains a subject, a verb, and expresses a complete thought.