General Goals: Students will write informally and formally, utilizing sound/spelling relationships, initial capitalization and ending punctuation. Students will write simple and complete sentences in a legible hand.

Goals By Term

Term 1 – Use lower case letters appropriately, use spaces between words, write from top to bottom, left to right, wrap text, make a list, choose a topic, use what is known about letters and sounds to write complete thoughts called sentences, make sure sentences have all their parts (beginning capital, ending punctuation), tell what is happening in a picture, write for others, listen to others’ writing.
Term 2 – Edit for beginning capitalization and ending punctuation including questions, identify naming and telling parts of sentences, nouns, describing words. Introduce the writing process with extend a story, expository report in Science, how-to instructions.
Term 3 – List and organize information, avoid excessive use of and and then. Write personal story, write directions to a location, complete a book report for Social Studies.
Term 4 – Use dictionary to check spelling, use action words (verbs), make comparisons (metaphors, similes, superlatives), write dialogue. Publish a story including character, setting, problem, solution, write sentences in a paragraph.