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August thru May<br />

Third Grade<br />

p. 3<br />

WRITING PROCESS<br />

Prewriting<br />

Generate ideas and formulate a plan<br />

• Multiple sources (e.g., text, brainstorming, graphic organizers, drawing, writer’s<br />

notebook, group discussion, printed material)<br />

• Determine purpose/audience<br />

• Organizational strategies (e.g., graphic organizers, KWL chart, log) to make a plan that<br />

includes a main idea<br />

Drafting<br />

Write a draft appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose<br />

• Pre-writing plan to develop the main idea with supporting details that describe or<br />

provide facts and/or opinions<br />

• Sequential, using time-order words and cause/effect transitions<br />

Revising<br />

Revise and refine draft for clarity and effectiveness<br />

• Evaluate draft for use of ideas and content, logical organization, voice, point of view,<br />

and word choice<br />

• Combination of sentence structures (i.e., simple, compound)<br />

• Add supporting details (e.g., dialogue, similes, etc.)<br />

• Modify word choice (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus)<br />

• Refine the draft (e.g., peer review, checklists, rubrics, conferencing)<br />

Editing<br />

Edit and correct the draft for standard language conventions<br />

• Spelling using patterns and generalizations<br />

• Capitalization for proper nouns<br />

• Punctuation (end punctuation, apostrophes, commas, colons, quotation marks)<br />

• Present and past verb tense, noun-pronoun agreement, noun-verb agreement,<br />

subjective and objective pronouns, and plurals of irregular nouns<br />

• Subject/verb and noun/pronoun agreement in simple and compound sentences<br />

Publishing<br />

• Prepare writing in an appropriate format<br />

• Add graphics to finished product<br />

• Share writing<br />

- Discovering Quality Literature Day and Young Author’s Conference<br />

SSS<br />

LA 3.3.1.1<br />

LA 3.3.1.2<br />

LA 3.3.1.3<br />

LA 3.3.2.1<br />

LA 3.3.2.2<br />

LA 3.3.3.1<br />

LA 3.3.3.2<br />

LA 3.3.3.3<br />

LA 3.3.3.4<br />

LA.3.3.3.4<br />

LA 3.3.4.1<br />

LA 3.3.4.2<br />

LA 3.3.4.3<br />

LA.3.3.4.4<br />

LA 3.3.4.4<br />

LA.3.3.5.1<br />

LA.3.3.5.2<br />

LA.3.3.5.<br />

LA 3.3.5.3<br />

FORMS OF WRITING<br />

Creative<br />

• Chapter books<br />

• Short stories & Tall Tales<br />

• Poetry<br />

• Skits<br />

• Song lyrics<br />

• Journals<br />

• Narrative essays<br />

Informative<br />

• Rules<br />

• Summaries<br />

• Directions & Procedures<br />

• Recipes<br />

• Notes<br />

• Messages<br />

• Labels<br />

• Instructions<br />

• Graphs/Tables<br />

• Experiments<br />

• Rubrics<br />

• Observations<br />

• Lists<br />

• Charts<br />

• Map labels<br />

• Legends<br />

• Friendly letters<br />

• Thank you notes<br />

• Formal letters<br />

• Invitations<br />

• Expository essays<br />

Persuasive<br />

• Advertisement<br />

• Paragraph<br />

Revised Edition, 2008

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