Writing Flashcards
Stage:
Age: 3-5
Rely on pics to communicate
Include shapes and letters on drawings
Preconventional
Stage:
Age: 4-6
Use pics when drawing, label objects
Match some letters to sounds
Copy print seen
Emerging
Stage:
Age: 5-7
Write sentences
Attempt punctuation
Developing
Stage:
Age: 6-8
Writes sentences on a topic
Others can read writing
Beginning
Stage:
Age: 7-9
Spell sight words
Organize sentences logically
Expanding
Stage:
Age: 8-10
Write with beginning, middle and end
Paragraphs
Outside resources
Bridging
Stage:
Age: 9-11
Write fiction and nonfiction
Edit punctuation
Fluent
Stage:
Age: 10-13
Well developed fiction and nonfiction
Edit organization
Proficient
Stage:
Age: 11-14
Write in genres
Implement punctuation
Connecting
Stage:
Age13and older
In depth fiction and non fiction
Revise writing through multiple drafts
Independent
_ writing
Explain, inform
Essays, research paper
Expository writing
_ writing
Tell a personal or fictional story to entertain
Story with a plot
Narrative writing
_ writing
Produces vivid pictures in readers imagination
Appeal to the readers 5 senses
Ex: poetry
Descriptive writing
_ writing
Convince or persuade
Plays on emotions
Speeches or advertisement
Persuasive writing
5 stages of writing
Prewriting Drafting Revise/edit Rewriting Publishing
_ drives the entire essay
Thesis
_ shapes each paragraph, introduces the ideat th paragraph will discuss
Topics sentence
Addresses writing the entire document
*does not unify the content within. Each paragraph
2nd stage of writing
Drafting stage
Drives overall direction of the essay
Outline
Original materials that represent an event
Direct or first had account
Primary sources
Inform about events but info provides is by someone who was NOT directly involved
Ex: a book that discusses a historical time period
Secondary sources
Trustworthy materials that come from experts in a field of study
Reliable sources
Untrustworthy materials
Selling products
Opinion pieces
Self published pieces
Unreliable sources