Text Types and Purposes
Write narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Prompting questions:
Does my story make sense? Is it grounded in reality?
Does my story address a real-life issue?
What is one detail that is vital to the message of my story?
What archetypal plot did I use? How can I prove it?
Production and Distribution of Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Prompting questions:
What genre is my story?
What moments illustrate the qualities of the genre in which I am writing?
Does my story develop a theme throughout it?
What parts of my story develop that theme?
Production and Distribution of Writing
With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
Prompting questions:
Do I have multiple drafts?
Did I try more than one genre to write about the social issue I am motivated by?
Where did I intentionally try to address my audience and expose them to important ideas/themes?
Where does my story best expose the issue I am shining a light on?
Range of Writing
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revisions) and shorter time frames (a single day or two) for range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Prompting questions:
Can I show multiple different stories I have drafted?
Can I show different ways I have written about the same topic
(various genre approaches to the same story).
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard
English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Prompting questions:
Do my subjects and verbs match throughout all of my writing at every point?