1st Grade: Writing
2nd Marking
period
Thinking and Academic Skills
What questions do we ask ourselves?
 How can I participate in shared research and writing
projects?
 How can I clearly state my opinion?
 How can I sequence narratives by recounting two or
more events?
How will we master the objectives?
 Gather facts by reading and listening
to informational text
 Write and opinion statement using
opinion words and phrases
 Use temporal words to sequence
events
Fluency
Intellectual Risk Taking
What do we need to know and be
able to do?
 Demonstrate command of capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling
 Use frequently occurring conjunctions ( and,
but, or, so, because)
 Use illustrations with captions
Vocabulary
capitalization
narrative
period
question mark
first next then finally
What resources will we use?
Various fiction and non-fiction texts
Graphic Organizers
Story Maps
opinion