Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Standard:
CC.1.4.3.B
Description:
Identify and introduce the topic.
Standard:
CC.1.4.3.C
Description:
Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, and illustrations,as appropriate
Standard:
CC.1.4.3.D
Description:
Create an organizational structure that includes information grouped and connected logically with a concluding statement or section.
Standard:
CC.1.4.3.E
Description:
Choose words and phrases for effect.
E03.D.2.1.1 - Choose words and phrases for effect.
Standard:
Literacy.W.3.2a
Description:
Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
Standard:
Literacy.W.3.2b
Description:
Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
Standard:
CC.1.4.3.F
Description:
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *
E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.
E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.
E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words
Standard:
Literacy.W.3.2c
Description:
Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
Standard:
Literacy.W.3.2d
Description:
Provide a concluding statement or section.
Standard:
3.20*
Description:
Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes.
Standard:
3.20.A*
Description:
create brief compositions that:
establish a central idea in a topic sentence;
include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; and
