Fifth Grade Writing Skills

How to Teach Reading Lesson Plans: Fifth Grade Writing Skills.

1. Uses a variety of sentence patterns when writing
2. Demonstrates proficiency in writing mechanics (capitalization, punctuation)
3. Demonstrates proficiency in writing usage (subject-verb agreement)
4. Self-corrects and corrects others’ writing by editing/proofreading (mechanics, usage, and spelling)
5. Uses grade level vocabulary
6. Summarizes passages in writing after reading
7. Predicts story endings in writing
8. Creates new endings for stories in writing
9. Describes characters in stories in writing
10. Responds to text by identifying and writing story elements
11. Responds to text by writing to retell a story
12. Creates written reports using a variety of materials
13. Creates class presentations using a variety of materials
14. Researches various topics such as businesses, places, or jobs and creates written presentations
15. Writes about how a passage makes him/her feel
16. Writes about story elements that made a story fictional
17. Writes about how to identify with people in stories
18. Identifies and writes author’s purpose
19. Writes for various audiences
20. Creates different types of compositions to inform, entertain, persuade, and describe
21. Creates various genres of literary writing
22. Writes instructions for completing a task
23. Writes directions for reaching a location
24. Writes a summary of a passage read aloud
25. Writes about how he/she feels after listening to a passage read aloud

 

 

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