| Objective A: Learners will recognize that
writing is, most importantly, a meaning-making process. |
- Compose with the intent to communicate ideas to others.
- Recognize the difference between handwriting, spelling, and
composing.
- Use mechanics or conventions of writing to help clarify meaning.
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| Objective B: Learners will recognize that
writing is a recursive process that involves rehearsing, drafting,
revising, and editing stages. |
- Explore writing topics or prewrite before drafting.
- Draft with the knowledge that text need not be complete.
- Revise text to clarify meaning.
- Edit text to remove mechanical errors and make suitable for
distribution or publishing.
- Move between writing stages recursively.
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| Objective C: Learners will use strategies
which assist in the writing process. |
- Use strategies for rehearsing writing topics such as outlining,
brainstorming, making mental and written lists, drawing and using
graphic organizers.
- Use strategies for drafting such as free writing or writing
without concern for appearance or proper use of mechanics or correct
spelling.
- Use strategies for revising such as asking for feedback from
peers and teachers, reading with an author's eye, starting pieces
over again, adding, deleting, expanding, inserting, and using
notations on drafts such as arrows to indicate changes.
- Use strategies for editing such as checklists, reading with an
editor's eye, read aloud, use a dictionary, and look at conventional
writing models in books.
- Use strategies for spelling such as sound out words, keep a
personal log of frequently misspelled words, use a dictionary while
editing, and use the memorizing strategies.
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