The English Language Arts Curriculum lists the following five general outcomes:
* Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
* Comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, literacy, and media texts
* Manage ideas and information
* Enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
* Celebrate and build community
These outcomes are cumulative across the grades. As listeners, speakers, readers, writers, viewers and representers, students are actively involved in making meaning. All the language arts are interrelated and interdependent.
process to record ideas in grade one.
1. Plan - The planning stage may involve
talking, drawing, thinking and using
graphic organizers to plan writing.
2. Writing - Students write a rough draft of
sentences about the writing topic.
Students spell words the best they can. The plan is used to write.
Edit - The teacher or student reads aloud the work to check if it sounds right. Corrections or suggestions are made.
Revised - Students make corrections to the rough draft.
Published - Students make a neat copy of the rough editted draft. Not all work is published.
Grade One students will be using the following forms of writing:
writing in journals, poems, speech bubbles, lists, notes, letters, stories, descriptions, autobiographies, directions, captions, posters, story retellings, research reports, and observations.
Students completed a poem about snow. Students used their senses to write this descriptive poem.
Mitten book reports were completed and hung up on the "Write On" bulletin board for display.
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