Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

All year

Features of Six Traits

• Ideas
• Organization
• Word Choice
• Sentence fluency
• Voice
• Conventions
• Presentation

• See types of writing assessments

All year

Writing Process

• Prewriting
• Rough draft
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

• See types of writing assessments

All year

Types of Writing

• Informative Writing
• Gather and synthesize information
• bibliography

• Expressive Writing

• Animal Research Paper (compare/contrast sources)
• Career Brochure
• Newspaper
• Disease Report (compare/contrast sources)

• Poetry
• Journal
• Father Essay
• Grandparent Essay
• Gift Essay

• I.D1
• I.D3
• I.E2
• III.B2

• I.E2

• Narrative Writing

• Persuasive Writing

• Leprechaun Story
• Student’s Choice Story

• Loch Ness Monster Essay
• Current Issue Analysis

• I.E2

• I.E2

• Problem – Solution Writing

• Pippi Longstocking (school or town issue)

All year

Grammar

• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs

• Daily Oral Language
• Writing

All year

Communication

• Oral and Listening Communication

• Presentations (Bold Journeys, Media, Disease)
• Expressive (Miss Louisa, Poetry, Reader’s Theatre)

• III.A6

• III.A7