Lessons tied
to MUSD Writing Standards for 5th Grade:
(These standards are very similar
to4-6 grades, and lessons can easily be adapted for different
grade levels through middle school.)
5-F
Students write for a variety of purposes and demonstrate spelling
skills
- apply basic rules of grade
level spelling in their writing
- Transfer grade level
spelling strategies to their independent writing
- Identify grade level word
parts and their meanings
- Identify, spell and define
grade level word lists
Activities that apply to the
above standards:
5-G
Students write for a variety of purposes and demonstrate
composition skills
- Compose descriptive,
narrative, expository, and persuasive writings
- Write five related, quality
paragraphs
- Use all story elements in
writing and independent composition
- Compose friendly and
business letters
- Address an envelope
correctly
- Participate in self and
peer editing to refine various types of grade level
writing
- Incorporate the entire
writing process into preparing various type of grade
level work
- Incorporate grade level
research skills into preparing various types of grade
level writing
- compose various types of
grade level writing using correct formats
- Use a thesaurus to identify
alternative word choices and meanings
Activities that relate to the
above standards:
5-H
Students write for a variety of purposes and demonstrate language
expression skills
- Rewrite poems found in
grade level material
- Summarize a complex story
found in grade level material
- Identify and use complex
and compound sentences in various types of grade level
writing
- Use a variety of word
choices to make their writing interesting and effective
- Use a dictionary as an aide
in their writing and editing
- Identify information that
does not relate to a paragraph in grade level material
and in student compositions
- Maintain agreement between
parts of speech in their writing
- Expand simple sentence
structure into complex sentence structure
- Use literary devices such
as personification, alliteration, and figurative language
in various types of grade level writing
- Use voice and point of view
in various types of grade level writing
- Incorporate a coherent
closure in various types of grade level writing
- Write a composition for a
specific audience
- Assess , guide, and discuss
their own writing and the writing of others through the
use of a rubric
- Use synonyms, antonyms,
homonyms, and multi-meaning words to make their writing
effective and interesting
- Identify and exclude
extraneous and inappropriate information from their own
writing and the writing of others
Lessons and activities that
address the above standards:
5-I
Students write for a variety of purposes and demonstrate language
mechanics skills
- Use correct language
mechanics in various types of grade level writing
- Proofreading and editing
their own writing and the writing of others
- Use grade level conventions
of written language in their compositions
- Identify and differentiate
between correctly formed sentences, fragments, run-ons,
and other incorrectly formed sentences
Lessons and activities that
address the above standards: