Second+Grade+April

=April at a Glance=


 * ==Crafting / Writing Traits:== || ==Writing Process:== || ==Grammar:== || ==Genres / Products:== || ==Suggested Assessments and Assessment Tools== ||
 * **Review Writing Traits in contexts of Expository and Persuasive Writing**
 * Ideas / Content
 * Identify Facts and /or Opinions
 * Supports opinions with facts
 * Voice
 * Remembers audience / purpose
 * Organization
 * Clear organization
 * Use of transition words
 * Word Choice
 * Uses content specific vocabulary
 * Sentence Fluency
 * Transition words
 * Vary sentence beginnings
 * Conventions
 * Cites Sources
 * Presentation

|| **Review Writing Process in contexts of Expository and Persuasive Writing**
 * Super 3 Research Process
 * Plan
 * Do
 * Review
 * Power Ps
 * Plan
 * Package
 * POP!
 * Polish
 * Publish with Pizzaz

|| **Editing -- Spelling**
 * Spelling Strategies and Rules Review || **Expository Writing**
 * Presents reasons, explanations, or steps in a process.
 * Develops one main idea with three supporting details or steps.
 * Uses logical order and / or appropriate sequencing of steps.
 * Uses transitional words to help organize writing.
 * Provides a summary or conclusion to the article / piece.


 * Introduce Persuasive Writing**
 * Issue or problem is clearly stated.
 * Writer explicitly states his / her position / opinion about the issue or problem.
 * Stays on topic and supports position/opinion with three relevant facts.
 * Concludes with a restatement of position / opinion and proposes a solution to the issue / problem (describes what the writer wants done about the problem).
 * Does not beg, whine, or bribe. ||  ||