- D'Nealian - manuscript and cursive (2nd semester)
- Grades from classroom written assignments
Writing Examples
- Notes to friend
- Thank you letters
Writers' Club
- Students are creating stories, fiction or nonfiction. Writing is published in a form they
select. No due dates or topic assigned. Each student will be a featured author twice
this year at our Authors' Teas.
Second graders look forward to Writers' Club and quarterly Authors' Teas where they share their own stories to an audience of family and classmates.
- Writing process
- Brainstorm (web, notes, jot list, pre-writing
- First draft - editing
- Proofread - final copy
- Whiskers, Coco, and Folly (Friday) - Our class mascots will spend the weekend with you. There is a journal to write about their adventures. Students share this on Friday.
- Integrated with other subjects (examples)
- Spelling sentence - Math word problem
- Letters and cards - Experiment data/conclusions
- Quick Writes - 10 minute written response to a book, play, video, etc. (Opinion writing)