Northern Elementary Writing Checklist
According to SBDM Policy, each teacher will submit to the Professional Learning Community the required writing
checklist on the specified due date for committee review. The cluster leader will submit the checklists to the BAC and DAC.
The items below can be used for evidence in the Writing Program Review.
Teacher:_______
Kindergarten
First Grade
Community of
Writers-- 2
Weeks
Due:
Analyze:
Unit 1
Due:
Analyze:
Unit 2
Due:
Analyze:
Unit 3
Due:
Analyze:
Unit 4
Due:
Analyze:
Unit 5
Due:
Analyze:
Unit 6
Due:
Analyze:
__Journal entry
__Journal
__Picture Writing
__Predictable
charts
__ Opinion piece
with rubric (book
review)
__ Write to answer
questions
__Journal entry
__Informative/expla
natory piece with
rubric
__Writing to learn
journal entry
__ Narrative piece with
rubric
__Provide text to
illustration
__Journal
__ Shared research
project
__Interview
__Social Studies
Journal entry
__Journal entry
__ Personal
__Narratives
(cont.)
__ Research
__ Feature article using
__ Opinion piece with
__Journal entry
project with
illustrations with
rubric
__Journal entry
__ Publish writing
piece using digital
tools with rubric
(audio, video, type)
__Interview
__Science Journal
entry
__ Writing to prompt
Science or Social
Studies
narrative (Publish
with technology)
with rubric
__Journal entry
technology with rubric
__Writing to prompt
Reading
rubric
__Writing to prompt
Math
__Speech
Second Grade
__Journal entry
__Oral Story
Telling
__ Personal
Narrative with
rubric
__Journal entry
__Realistic fiction
with rubric
__Reading
Extended Response
__Writing to learn
Journal Math
__Informative/expla
natory piece with
rubric
__Math Extended
Response
__Speech?
__Opinion piece
(persuasive) with rubric
__Social Studies
Journal entry
__Blog entry
__ Research piece with
rubric
__ Group PowerPoint
presentation
__Math Extended
Response
__Science Probe
__Book opinion piece
with rubric
__Reading
extended Response
__Reflective Journal
__Audio recording of
story or poem
Third Grade
__Journal entry
__Personal
Narratives with
rubric
__Imagined
__Biography (info
__Learning log
__Opinion piece with
__Reflective piece
__Math
__Journal entry
__Math extended
__Journal entry for
Narratives with
rubric
report) with rubric
__Journal entry
__Research project(info
report)/Feature article
with rubric
rubric
response
with rubric
math
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
constructed
response
Math
__Journal entry
constructed
response
__Reading
__Exit slip
__Social Studies
Journal entry
__Blog entry
__Speech with rubric
__Science Probe
__Reading Constructed
Response
__Audio recording of
story or poem with
rubric
__PowerPoint
Presentation?
__ Biography with
rubric
__Bio-poem
__Wordle poem
__Weekend Journal
entry
__ Personal
narrative with
rubric
__Research
PowerPoint on Body
Systems with
rubric
__Admit Slip
__ Imagined
narrative with
rubric
__Reading open
response
__Journal entry
Math
__Video speech
__Word Mover
haiku
__ Feature Article
with rubric
__Journal entry
__Math extended
response
__4-H speech with
rubric
__Toontastic
cartoon with rubric
__ Opinion pieces with
rubric
__Journal entry social
studies
__Science extended
response
__Edmodo post
__ Space PowerPoint
with rubric
__Journal entry
__Exit slip
__Journal entry
Reading
__Science Probe
__Reflective Journal
__Journal entry
__Real narrative—
Memoir with rubric
__Reading
extended response
__Poem
__Blog
__ Historical
fiction narrative
with rubric
__Extended
response math
__Journal entry
__Social studies
__ Inventions
Explanatory Essay
with rubric
__Journal entry
__Constructed
response math
__Extended
response
__ Opinion (persuasive)
piece with rubric
__Opinion Speech with
rubric
__On demand entry with
rubric
__Blog entry
__ Research project
with rubric
__Informative speech
with rubric
__On demand entry
with rubric
__Summarize text
aloud using diverse
media
__Journal entry
__Note-taking
activity
__Reflective
PowerPoint with
rubric