Quarter 1
Fifth Grade Focus: Writing for Personal Expression
TASS: Flexibility, Collaboration, Synthesis, Metacognition, Elaboration, Intellectual Risk Taking,
Evaluation, Effort/Motivation/Persistence
What question do we ask ourselves?
What do we need to know and be able to do?
1. What forms can I use to effectively communicate my ideas?
2. Where can I get ideas for my writing?
1. We will be able to use the writing process to plan,
draft, revise, edit, and publish writing.
3. How do I determine which writing form will best convey my personal
idea?
3.
What words do we need to know to master the
objectives?
Writing Process (plan, draft, edit, revise, publish)
Organization
Voice
2. We will be able to write to express personal
ideas.
3. We will be able to write in a variety of forms
about topics of personal interests that include an
introduction, details, transitions, and a conclusion.
Ideas
Conventions
What resources will we use?
Sentence fluency
Thesaurus
word
How will we master the objectives?
 Use resources to help us plan our writing.
 Use the writing process to help us compose
paragraphs.
 Use peer editing strategies to enhance our
paragraphs.
Dictionary
Writer’s Handbook
Technology
Post- it notes
Graphic Organizers