| Teacher Page South Carolina Curriculum Standards: Demonstrate the ability to identify the characteristics of genres such as fiction, poetry, drama, and informational texts. Demonstrate the ability to choose a topic, generate ideas, and use oral and written prewriting strategies. Demonstrate the ability to plan for audience and purpose and to generate drafts that use a logical progression of ideas to develop a specific topic. Demonstrate the ability to develop an extended response around a central idea, using relevant supporting details. Demonstrate the ability to revise writing for clarity, sentence variety, precise vocabulary, and effective phrasing through collaboration, conferencing, and self-evaluation. Demonstrate the ability to edit for language conventions such as spelling, capitalization, punctuation, agreement, sentence structure (syntax), and word usage. Demonstrate the ability to write multiple-paragraph compositions, friendly letters, and expressive and informational pieces. Demonstrate the ability to use the Internet with teacher guidance and support to communicate with others. Demonstrate the ability to use writing to learn, entertain, and describe. Demonstrate the ability to use literary models to refine writing his or her own writing style. Begin to use texts to make connections and to support ideas in his or her own writing. Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of resources, including technology, to access information. Demonstrate the ability to gather and organize information from a variety of sources, including those accessed through the use of technology. Demonstrate the ability to organize and classify information by categorizing; begin sequencing information. |
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