Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Instructional

Goal

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Quarter

Taught

Colorado Content Standard 2

Colorado Content Standard 5

Essential Learning Target:

Create a descriptive writing piece on a topic using 4-6 complete sentences.

Student Friendly:

Writing piece has 4-6 complete sentences.

Writing samples will contain 4-6 complete sentences.

85% of student writing samples contain 4-6 complete sentences.

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft journals.

1^st quarter

2-3 sentences.

2^nd quarter

3-4 sentences

3^rd quarter

4-6 sentences

4^th quarter

4-6 sentences

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Instructional

Goals

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Quarter

Taught

Colorado State

Standard #2

Essential Learning Target:

Create a plan using descriptive vocabulary for a writing topic.  Plan format can be a web, list, or timeline.

Student Friendly:

Make a plan for writing using a web, list, or timeline.

A plan will be created and used for  writing assignments.

100% of students will use a plan before completing writing assignment.

Teacher demonstrated writing.

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft journals.

1^st /2^nd quarter

(web)

3^rd/4^th quarter

(web, list, timeline)

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Instructional

Goal

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Quarter

Taught

Colorado Content Standard 2

Essential Learning Target:

Writing topic is clearly identified in first sentence of writing piece.

Student Friendly:

Topic is in first sentence.

Topic is identified in the first sentence of their writing piece.

100% of students will identify their topic in the first sentence of their writing piece.

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft journals.

1^st quarter

Spiral throughout year

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Instructional

Goal

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Quarter

Taught

Colorado Content Standard 2

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Essential Learning Target:

********

Student Friendly:

Descriptive words (adjective/

adverbs) describe the topic.

Descriptive

words (adverbs/

adjectives)  are used to describe the topic of their writing piece.

100% of students will use descriptive

words (adverbs/

adjectives)  to describe the topic of their writing piece.

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft journals.

1^st quarter

Spiral throughout year

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Common

Assessments

Quarter

Taught

Colorado Content Standard # 2

Standard # 3

Essential Learning Target: Writing piece will illustrate the use of pronouns to vary sentence beginnings.

Student Friendly:

Pronouns are used to vary sentence beginnings.

Sentence beginnings vary through the use of pronouns to begin sentences.

85% of students will vary sentence beginnings by usmg pronouns.

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child’s a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft

journals.

2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th quarter

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Common

Assessments

Quarter

Taught

Colorado Content Standard #2

Standard #4

Essential Learning Target: Writing piece will demonstrate appropriate punctuation and capitalization.

.

Student Friendly:

Basic punctuation and capitalization are used correctly.

Basic punctuation and capitalization are evident in student writing.

90% of students will use basic punctuation and capitalization in their writing piece

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft

journals.

1^st quarter

Spiral throughout year.

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Common

Assessments

Quarter

Taught

Content Standard # 2

Standard # 3

Essential Learning Target: Writing piece has "no excuse" sight words spelled correctly. (No excuse words are from the

  word wall.)

.

Student Friendly:

Sight words are spelled correctly.

Sight words are spelled correctly in writing pieces.

85% of students will correctly spell “no excuse” sight words.

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft

journals.

1^st quarter

Spiral throughout year.

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Common

Assessments

Quarter

Taught

Content Standard # 2

Standard # 3

Essential Learning Target:

Each writing piece has legible penmanship.

.

Student Friendly:

Penmanship is neat, well-spaced, and easy to read.

Writing piece will have legible penmanship.

100% of student will have writing pieces that display legible penmanship.

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft

journals.

1^st quarter

Spiral throughout year.

Content

Standard

Essential Learning Target/

Student Friendly Language

Success

Criteria

Suggested Resources

Common

Assessment

Common

Assessments

Quarter

Taught

Colorado Content Standard #2

Essential Learning Target:

Illustrations match ptinted material.

.

Student Friendly:

Illustrations match printed material.

Illustrations will match printed material in writing piece.

100% of students will have illustrations that match their writing piece.

Teacher Demonstrated Writing

Exemplars

NLC (Every Child a Writer)

Writing Rubric

Student writing samples, draft

journals.

1^st quarter

Spiral throughout year.