The document outlines five areas of writing - content, organization, vocabulary, language mechanics, and editing. It provides guidance on each area, such as including an introduction, main ideas, and conclusion for content, using transitions for organization, and applying spelling rules and revising for editing. The document also includes references for additional information on the writing topics.

1. Cynthia Willard
7/14/09

2. Main Menu
Content
Assessment
References
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3. Five Areas of Writing
•Content
•Organization
•Vocabulary
•Language Mechanics
•Editing

4. Content
•Introduction in Paragraph Form
•Develop three or more main ideas
•Include at least three descriptive details
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•Develop characters character
development
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•Compose to a specific audience

5. Organization
•Have a clear
beginning, middle, and end
•Clear transitions
•A strong closure

6. Graphic Organizer
What? Where? With whom?
1) What happened ?
Tell me more:
2) What happened ?
Tell me more:
Feeling or solution:

7. Vocabulary
Use a variety of word choices to
make writing interesting

8. Language Mechanics
 Use simple , complex, and compound
sentences
 Maintain agreement between parts of
speech
 Use correct capitalization, punctuation, etc.

9. Editing
Writing is Re-Writing!
Apply basic rules of grade level spelling
Evidence of editing

10. Revision Checklist
•My beginning paragraph tells who and what the story is about.
•The middle paragraph tells about three events.
•Each event has a detail.
•Each sentence is complete and makes sense.
•The ending paragraph tells a feeling or solution.

11. Should every story have a
beginning, middle, and end?
A. Yes
B. No

12. What Area of Writing includes
using correct capitalization?
A. Organization
B. Vocabulary
C. Language Mechanics

13. What should the beginning
paragraph of a story include?
A. Solution
B. Who and what the story is about
C. Three events

14. Correct! Good Job!

15. Incorrect! Try Again!

16. References:
•Works Cited
Rubin, Dorothy. Teaching Elementary Language Arts. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. 79-245.
NC Standard Course of Study. State Board of Education. 23 May 2009
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/languagearts/scos/2004/17
grade2
NC Standard Course of Study. State Board of Education.12 June 2009
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/computerskills/scos/08grade2
Cholden, Harriett,John Friedman, The Homework Handbook,Contemporary Books,1998.166-171
Hirsch,e.d.,What Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know, Doubleday,1991. 65-70
http://www.writersvillage.com/character/index.htm