5th Grade Writing Standards- Quarter 1
Name: _______________________________________
Writing Behaviors: End of 1st Quarter
Processes and Habits
 Composes clear and coherent ideas with fluency (W.5.5)
Conferencing Notes
Date:
Topic:
 Uses planning strategies to plan and organize ideas (story maps,
story webs, outlines, or other graphic organizers) (W.5.5)
 Rereads to clarify message by adding or deleting information
(W.5.5)
 Tries new techniques in writing (W.5.5)
TP:
 Revises and edits to strengthen writing (W.5.5)
Date:
 Uses resources to check their writing (dictionary, checklist, and
thesaurus)
Topic:
 Composes clear and coherent pieces in which the development
and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
(W.5.4)
TP:
Language Usage and Conventions
 Uses conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in particular
sentences (L.5.1.a)
 Uses the perfect (I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked)
verb tenses (L.5.1.b)
 Uses verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and
conditions. (L.5.1.c)
Date:
Topic:
TP:
 Recognizes and corrects inappropriate shifts in verb tense
(L.5.1.d)
 Uses correlative conjunctions (either/or, neither/nor)
(L.5.1.e)
 Expands, combines, and reduces sentences for meaning,
reader/listener interest, and style (L.5.3.a)
Genre
 Writes narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or
events (W.5.3)
Date:
Topic:
TP:
 Uses descriptive details (W.5.3)
 Uses clear event sequences (W.5.3)
Date:
 Uses dialogue correctly (W.5.3.b)
Topic:
 Uses description and pacing, to develop experiences and events
or show the responses of characters to situations (W.5.3.b)
 Orients the reader by establishing a situation (W.5.3.a)
TP:
 Introduces a narrator and/or characters (W.5.3.a)
 Organizes an event sequence that unfolds naturally (W.5.3.a)
 Uses a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to
manage the sequence of events. (W.5.3.c)
Date:
Topic:
 Uses concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey
experiences and events precisely (W.5.3.d)
TP:
 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or
events (W.5.3.e)