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Focus Areas of Good Writing
In our Language Arts Program we are studying the focus areas of good writing. Students are now beginning to self-grade their own writing using these focus areas as a guide. Second grade students are exposed to all the areas and should be fluent by the end of second grade. A scoring rubric is used to grade different types of writing assignment. This scoring rubric is attached to the student’s writing. To find additional information regarding the different types of writing go to the Empowering Writers' link.
Focus/Idea/ContentThe story relates interesting events told in logical order.
Organization
The story has a good beginning and time order words.
Voice
The writing sounds like it uses the words of someone who took part in the events.
Word Choice
The writer uses natural language in which the best words are used to articulate the thoughts being expressed to bring the topic to life (exact nouns, specific descriptors, action verbs).
Sentence Fluency
The writer uses a variety of sentence patterns that flow easily throughout the entire writing piece.
Conventions
The writer uses correct use of punctuation, capitalization, spelling, grammar and paragraphing.
Presentation
The overall appearance of the writing work is pleasing (handwriting, spacing of text, margins, and headers).