Writing in a Variety of Genres
The State of Georgia assesses students in Grade 3 in four genre of writing.
- informational
- persuasive
- narrative
- response to literature
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Students will:
Use sensory details and other literary language to communicate setting, characters, and plot. Capture a reader’s interest by stating a clear position/ opinion and developing a point of view.
Sustain a focused topic and an organizational pattern based on purpose, genre, expectations, audience, and length.
Add supportive details throughout the paper that may include relevant examples, facts, and anecdotes.
Demonstrate understanding of the text, formulates an opinion, and supports a judgment.
Make connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world connections using significant details from the reading selection.
Sustain a focused topic and an organizational pattern based on purpose, genre, expectations, audience, and length.
Add supportive details throughout the paper that may include relevant examples, facts, and anecdotes.
Demonstrate understanding of the text, formulates an opinion, and supports a judgment.
Make connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world connections using significant details from the reading selection.
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Editing Checklist
Grammar, Spelling, Capitalization, Punctuation
1. Check your spelling.
2. Check your grammar.
3. Read your paper out loud.
4. Make sure each sentence has a subject.
5. Make sure your subjects and verbs agree make sense.
6. Check the verb tenses of each sentence.
7. Make sure that each sentence makes sense.
8. Check for missing words.
Style and Organization
1. Do you have an introduction, supporting details, and a final summary paragraph?
2. Is it easy to find your main idea sentence?.
3. Make sure that each new idea has three supporting details.
4. Read it to a peer for suggestions.
1. Check your spelling.
2. Check your grammar.
3. Read your paper out loud.
4. Make sure each sentence has a subject.
5. Make sure your subjects and verbs agree make sense.
6. Check the verb tenses of each sentence.
7. Make sure that each sentence makes sense.
8. Check for missing words.
Style and Organization
1. Do you have an introduction, supporting details, and a final summary paragraph?
2. Is it easy to find your main idea sentence?.
3. Make sure that each new idea has three supporting details.
4. Read it to a peer for suggestions.
Differences by Genre
INFORMATIONAL - Article
Uses organizational patterns for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarities and differences, questions and answers).Uses a variety of resources to research and share information on a topic.
Provides a sense of closure.
PERSUASIVE - Letter
Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (e.g., introduction, body, conclusion, speech, brochure, advertisement, movie and book reviews).Provides a sense of closure. NARRATIVE - Folktale
Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (well developed beginning, middle, and end, and sequence of events) and strategies (transition words/phrases, time cue words).Develops characters through action & dialogue.
Provides a sense of closure.
May include prewriting.
May include a revised and edited draft. May be published.
RESPONSE TO LITERATURE
Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (T-charts, compare and contrast, letter to author, rewrite the ending, beginning, middle, and end with details from the text ). Provides a sense of closure.
Uses organizational patterns for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarities and differences, questions and answers).Uses a variety of resources to research and share information on a topic.
Provides a sense of closure.
PERSUASIVE - Letter
Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (e.g., introduction, body, conclusion, speech, brochure, advertisement, movie and book reviews).Provides a sense of closure. NARRATIVE - Folktale
Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (well developed beginning, middle, and end, and sequence of events) and strategies (transition words/phrases, time cue words).Develops characters through action & dialogue.
Provides a sense of closure.
May include prewriting.
May include a revised and edited draft. May be published.
RESPONSE TO LITERATURE
Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (T-charts, compare and contrast, letter to author, rewrite the ending, beginning, middle, and end with details from the text ). Provides a sense of closure.