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WRITING 6: Students create texts that reflect personal voice and style through creative and critical thinking processes.
CONVENTIONS 6: Students apply and analyze conventions that support accuracy or enhance creative expression.
GR. 6 - ORGANIZING IDEA: WRITING
Ideas and information can be articulated accurately and imaginatively through the use of writing processes and an understanding of the author’s craft.
Guiding Question: How is precise writing influenced by ongoing craft and process development?
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Learning Outcome: Students create texts that reflect personal voice and style through creative and critical thinking processes. |
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Writings processes can be used to clearly compose and refine ideas and develop personal style, and include
Planning can help organize thoughts and prioritize information and includes
Organizational structures can help focus the expression of ideas or information, such as
Variety in sentence length and structure can enhance writing fluency and reader engagement. Fluent writing invites expressive oral reading that brings out the writer’s voice or style. Revision may involve adding or deleting portions of text, moving pieces of text around, or restructuring sentences. Revision can ensure writing is
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Writing can cultivate expression, problem solving, and critical thinking. |
Create written texts for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Create written texts in a variety of forms and structures.
Develop creative expression through the use of writing processes.
Analyze how ideas align with the purpose, audience, and form of writing.
Express personal ideas through multiple paragraphs for the purpose of engaging an audience.
Organize writing around clear ideas or positions that are supported by examples or relevant evidence.
Express ideas using organizational structures that enhance writing.
Relate ideas and connect paragraphs using a variety of transitions.
Revise text for clarity, focus, and audience.
Edit writing for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Publish selected writing, incorporating graphics, captions, charts, or other text features to express individuality. |
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Creative thinking processes involve
The products of creative thinking may be interpreted differently depending on the perspectives of the audience. Words can create effects or emphasis, including
Word choice can reflect the author’s voice or style, including in texts that
Tone expresses the text creator’s attitude toward or feelings about the topic and audience. |
Creative thinking can enhance personal style and voice through experimenting with, evaluating, and selecting details. |
Apply creative thinking processes through experimenting with, evaluating, and selecting details to produce a desired effect.
Analyze the descriptive language and word choice of professional authors as models for writing.
Create text that uses imagery, rhyme, dialogue, emphasis, or effect.
Create narratives that develop setting, plot, and character using suspense, figurative language, and dialogue.
Enhance personal style and voice through careful selection of words to create emphasis or effects.
Analyze writing for development of tone and point of view through language use.
Determine alternative words and meanings using a variety of digital or non-digital tools. |
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Research processes involve management of information, including
Research processes can involve accessing information from multiple digital or non-digital sources.
Protocols for accessing information may vary by source, context, community, or culture.
Protocols can exist for requesting permission to share stories and histories from the original owner.
Information can be gathered and organized using a variety of methods and tools.
Research findings can be shared in a variety of digital or non-digital forms, including graphs, tables, or charts.
Ethical use of information includes
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Research processes can support systematic and objective management and sharing of information. |
Write to inform, explain, describe, or report for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Narrow research questions to determine a clear, well-defined topic.
Support the main idea or topic with relevant facts, details, examples, and explanations from multiple sources.
Summarize and organize ideas gained from multiple sources using a variety of methods or tools.
Analyze the validity and reliability of information and sources.
Access and use information ethically. |
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Written communication can be created or enhanced by selecting from a variety of digital or non-digital methods or tools, such as
The selection of digital or non-digital tools for written works can be adapted according to audience, purpose, form, or context. |
Written communication involves making choices to effectively convey messages. |
Experiment with methods or tools to enhance communication or create effects.
Select a method or tool to present written works that supports clarity or voice.
Demonstrate legibility and writing fluency through the use of printing, cursive handwriting, or keyboarding. |
GR. 6 - ORGANIZING IDEA: CONVENTIONS
Understanding grammar, spelling, and punctuation makes it easier to communicate clearly, to organize thinking, and to use language for desired effects.
Guiding Question: How does the understanding and application of conventions enhance proficient communication?
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Learning Outcome: Students apply and analyze conventions that support accuracy or enhance creative expression. |
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Capitalization is used to indicate the importance of certain words in texts and can be used to create effects.
Abbreviations can make communications easy to read and understand.
Punctuation includes a colon, which can be used to
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Correct use of capitalization and punctuation can strengthen and enhance written communication. |
Apply capitalization appropriately in written communication.
Apply punctuation appropriately in written communication.
Experiment with capitalization and punctuation to create a variety of effects. |
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Verb tenses clearly establish the time of the actions in written or oral expression.
A simple sentence contains one independent clause.
A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb and is not always a complete sentence.
An independent clause expresses a complete thought and can stand on its own as a sentence.
A dependent clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand on its own as a sentence.
A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses that are usually joined by a conjunction. |
Communication is enhanced when correct conventions of grammar are maintained. |
Maintain consistent use of tense throughout communications.
Use subject-verb agreement in communications.
Use independent and dependent clauses in sentences.
Differentiate between simple and compound sentences. |
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Spelling accuracy can be supported by the application of complex patterns.
Spelling accuracy can involve understanding how words are created by manipulating prefixes and suffixes to a base (derivation).
Spelling accuracy and fluency enhance written communication. |
Spelling accuracy can be enhanced by recognizing patterns and by making spelling-meaning connections. |
Apply spelling patterns within and across known and unfamiliar words.
Apply knowledge of bases and affixes to spell words. |
