Second+Grade+March

=March at a Glance=

Review writing crafting traits in context of expository writing
 * ==Crafting / Writing Traits:== || ==Writing Process:== || ==Grammar:== || ==Genres / Products:== || ==Suggested Assessments and Assessment Tools== ||
 * ===Writing Traits===
 * Ideas / Content
 * Purpose
 * Factual
 * Introduce concept of Plagiarism
 * Taking good notes
 * Voice
 * Audience
 * Purpose
 * Organization
 * Facts / Categories for Informational Writing
 * Steps / Sequentially for procedural writing (i.e. How I solved this math problem.)
 * Word Choice
 * Using content specific vocabulary
 * Sentence Fluency
 * Transition Words for smoothly incorporating steps
 * Vary Sentence beginnings
 * Conventions
 * Citing Sources
 * Author, Title, URL of Websites
 * Alphabetizing
 * Presentation

|| **Power Ps -- Review in context of expository writing**
 * Plan
 * Audience / Purpose
 * teach / inform
 * Organization
 * Discuss overall structure of expository / informative writing
 * Study mentor texts
 * Organize procedural writing sequentially
 * Organize informational writing by fact or category.
 * Model using features of expository text in writing (diagrams, etc.)
 * Emphasize transitions
 * Package
 * Drafts
 * POP!
 * Make it interesting
 * Vary sentence beginnings
 * Check for clarity -- Will my audience understand?
 * Revise words to be more explicit.
 * Include facts that teach and diagrams
 * Polish
 * Model rereading and revision
 * Emphasize organization -- transitions
 * Specific content vocabulary
 * Publish with Pizzazz
 * Expository Research Process includes**
 * introducing students to strategies for researching a topic
 * Uses a minimum of two books to gather facts about a subject
 * selecting relevant information
 * picking the facts to use/note taking
 * developing a way to present the ideas from beginning to end
 * format and organization of written presentation
 * Note -- some of this will be introduced in the library / computer lab.

Note: Super 3 Process can be utilized as a method of attacking regular school assignments (discussion questions / tests)
 * Super 3 Research Process **
 * __//Plan //__-- Before I begin, I think about how I will think about how I will complete my project:
 * What am I supposed to do?
 * What will a good job look like?
 * What information do I need?
 * Where will I get my information?
 * What is my plan?
 * //__Do__//-- As I do my work I must:
 * Get the information I need.
 * Put it all together
 * Decide how to present my information
 * Speaking to the class
 * Drawing a picture / diagram
 * Making a poster
 * Using the computer
 * Writing
 * Keep up with and list my sources of information
 * __//Review//__-- When I’m finished, I check my work to make sure it’s complete:
 * Is the job truly finished?
 * Did I do what I was supposed to do?
 * Do I feel okay about my work?
 * Do I need to do anything else before I turn it in?
 * What could I do better next time? || **Editing -- Punctuation**
 * End marks
 * Apostrophes
 * Possessives
 * Contractions
 * Commas
 * In Series
 * In letters
 * Citation of Sources**
 * Alphabetizing
 * Punctuating titles || ** Expository / Informative **(Writes to describe, explain, inform, or summarize ideas)
 * Presents reasons, explanations, or steps in a process.
 * Develops one main idea with three supporting details or steps.
 * Uses facts or definitions to develop supporting points
 * Uses logical order and / or appropriate sequencing of steps.
 * Uses transitional words to help organize writing.
 * Provides a summary or conclusion to the article / pie || **Research Process**
 * Student writing
 * Write to teach someone how to do something
 * Student writing using at least two sources (books)
 * [|Super 3 Student Checklist] ||