Choose intended audience and purpose. Use a variety of prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas. Organize writing structure to fit form or topic. Establish a central idea incorporating evidence, while maintaining an organized structure and a formal style. Compose a thesis statement for persuasive writing that includes a position. Clearly state a position and organize reasons and evidence, using credible sources. Distinguish between fact and opinion to support a position. Write multiparagraph compositions with elaboration and unity. Use transition words and phrases within and between paragraphs. Develop and modify the central idea, tone, and voice to fit the audience and purpose. Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination, and subordination in complete sentences. Use clauses and phrases for sentence variety. Revise writing for clarity of content including specific vocabulary and information. ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND PROCESSES All students should To be successful with this standard, students are expected to understand that writing requires a compose with attention to central idea, unity, elaboration, and organization recursive process that includes elaborate to give detail, add depth, and continue the development of an idea planning, drafting, revising, editing, analyze and use mentor texts as models for writing and publishing identify intended audience and purpose understand that voice in writing is use a variety of prewriting strategies purposefully crafted with attention to explain, analyze, or summarize a topic deliberate word choice, precise write an effective thesis statement that focuses on the topic and explains the writer’s information, and vocabulary position in an argument understand that vocabulary and tone differentiate between a thesis statement and a topic sentence must be selected with awareness of choose an appropriate strategy for organizing ideas, such as comparison/contrast, cause audience and purpose and effect, etc., and provide transitions between ideas
Choose intended audience and purpose. Use a variety of prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas. Organize writing structure to fit form or topic. Establish a central idea incorporating evidence, while maintaining an organized structure and a formal style. Compose a thesis statement for persuasive writing that includes a position. Clearly state a position and organize reasons and evidence, using credible sources. Distinguish between fact and opinion to support a position. Write multiparagraph compositions with elaboration and unity. Use transition words and phrases within and between paragraphs. Develop and modify the central idea, tone, and voice to fit the audience and purpose. Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination, and subordination in complete sentences. Use clauses and phrases for sentence variety. Revise writing for clarity of content including specific vocabulary and information. ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND PROCESSES All students should understand that writing requires a recursive process that includes planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing understand that voice in writing is purposefully crafted with attention to deliberate word choice, precise information, and vocabulary understand that vocabulary and tone must be selected with awareness of audience and purpose To be successful with this standard, students are expected to compose with attention to central idea, unity, elaboration, and organization elaborate to give detail, add depth, and continue the development of an idea analyze and use mentor texts as models for writing identify intended audience and purpose use a variety of prewriting strategies explain, analyze, or summarize a topic write an effective thesis statement that focuses on the topic and explains the writer’s position in an argument differentiate between a thesis statement and a topic sentence choose an appropriate strategy for organizing ideas, such as comparison/contrast, cause and effect, etc., and provide transitions between ideas
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