•  Writing

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    Writing instruction occurs daily in first grade. We focus on four areas of instruction - building the foundations, personal narratives, informative, and opinion. Skills and concepts are explicitly taught using the model - Watch Me, Our Turn, Your Turn.

    Building the Foundations
    Use basic shapes and lines to draw pictures
    Label pictures using best guess spelling
    Write sentences and lists
    Make sentences stronger
    Write more than one sentence on a topic
    Reread to make sure it makes sense
    Recall information to write more than one sentence to answer a question
    Respond to questions to strengthen writing

    Personal Narrative
    Exposure to features of a personal narrative
    Together use a story plan to write a class personal narrative
    Make a story plan and write a personal narrative with details

    Informative
    Identify and write facts and opinions
    Write factual sentences
    Write a topic sentence and closing sentences
    Note taking
    Write an informative paper 

    Opinion
    Distinguish fact from opinion
    Write and opinion statement and reasons for it
    Use opinion sentence starters
    Write an opinion paper with a closing sentence