Writing Objectives

Students will engage in daily, meaningful formal and/or informal writing tasks in English class and/or at home.  The tasks will be based upon the following objectives:

1.   Students will be able to engage in informal writing assignments (i.e. reader response, freewriting, focused freewriting, prediction,
response journals, dialectical notebook entries, and other pieces of writing that they do not take through the entire writing process).

2.   Students will be able to engage in formal writing assignments that require utilization of all stages of the writing process.

3.   Students will be able to choose and use a relevant pre-writing strategy that will help them to prepare for the assignment.

4.  Students will be able to write several rough drafts of a paper to revise clarity and depth of content or to edit style and mechanics.

5. Students will be able to engage in revision in the following areas:

a. language, information, style, voice and structure appropriate to the purpose and selected
    audience

b. clear, understandable, and accurate language

c. incorporation of sentence variety (simple, compound, complex)

d. incorporation of varied sentence beginnings (introductory prepositional phrases, participial
    phrases, adverbial clauses, adjectival phrases)

e. fluent and precise transitions between sentences, ideas, and paragraphs

f. appropriate organization and order of words, sentences and paragraphs within an essay

i.  specificity and relevance of topic

ii. introduction that conveys the subject and purpose through a precise and well-maintained,
    tightly focused thesis statement

iii. unified and coherent body that contains appropriate and adequate detail

iv. conclusion that summarizes, restates the topic, or goes further to make a final statement on
    the topic

g. addition of details and support

h. deletion of unnecessary words, phrases, sentences, sections

i.  use of teacher and/or peer feedback to improve the piece

6.        Students will be able to engage in proofreading in the following areas:

a. individual student’s major goal area(s)

b. complete sentences (avoiding fragments, comma splices, and run-ons)

c. subject verb agreement

d. effective use of active and passive voice

e. parallel structure

f. pronoun antecedent agreement

g.verb tense consistency

h.capitalization

i. proper MLA documentation (in-text citations and works cited)

j. punctuation

i.      end punctuation

ii.      commas, colons, and semi-colons

iii.     periods in abbreviations

iv.     apostrophes

v.      quotation marks, commas, and periods in direct quotations

7.   Students will be able to engage in teacher and/or peer conferences during any or all stages of the writing process.

8.   Students will be able to evaluate their own writing according to established criteria and rubrics.

9.   Students will be able to maintain neatly organized writing portfolios for use in tracking their growth as maturing writers.

10. Students will be able to publish their works in various genres and for various audiences and purposes.

Other Options : 

Speaking and Listening Objectives 
Reading Objectives  

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