writing

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As was stated in the original email, Tumalo Community School has recently participated in a two day writing workshop with Elisa Faire. One of the topics brought up was that Tumalo needs to have common language and common agreements within certain areas of writing. Shouldn't we all? We want to hear what you have to say. What are your thoughts? For example, what are some writing skills that a 3rd grader should consistently demonstrate that would not necessarily be expected from a 1st grader?

How many have heard of a wiki? Probably not many. If you click **HOME** off to the left you will find a description of what a wiki is. Basically it is a website that anyone can edit. We all add to it and build it together. It is an online form of collaborating and sharing ideas and it really easy - cool!

To the left of this writing you will see some links to different topics I have put on my wiki. These are all pages that people have contributed to and have helped me build. Right now you are on my **writing wiki**. This is where we can share our writing ideas.

A couple of features/buttons at the top of the page to take note of:
 * "**Edit This Page**" this will allow you to change, add, delete information
 * "**Notify Me**" this will allow you to subscribe to this wiki via email. Each time someone makes a change you get an email.


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 * Expectations per grade level** - //What writing conventions are expected (non-negotiable) for each grade level? Don't worry about repeating topics and there is not a right or wrong answer. This is a brainstorm project and all ideas and thoughts are valid.//

Scroll up to the top and click "**Edit this Page**" to add expectations for your grade level.

Kinder -Picture and story match,detailed picture, write full name without a model, hears and writes beginning sounds writes from left to right write some sight words that are on word wall

1st Grade -Capitalize at the beginning of a sentence. Capitalize "I" and names. Use of a period at the end of a sentence, along with ? and ! also. Beginning/middle/ending of writings-introduced(referred to on report card). Main idea needs to match the title. Use of 'describing words'-adjectives, and of 'action words'-verbs. Words on a word wall (spelling words) should be spelled correctly. There should be spaces between words. Non word wall words should be spelled phonetically.

2nd Grade -Capitalization at the beginning of a sentence and proper nouns. Correct punctuation at the end of a sentence.

3rd Grade - Conventions are in place.( ending punctuation,capitals,spelling, ) indenting paragraphs, use of conjunctions, adverbs

4th Grade - end marks, quotation marks, underlining book titles (Check out the DOL--self starts on Hehater Renz' web page for daily conventions practice at 4th grade level.)

5th Grade -

6th Grade - how to use commas

7th Grade - how to use commas

8th Grade - semicolons, how to use commas