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Grade 1 Benchmarks

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The student begins to acquire a way of thinking about writing and understands purposes for writing:

                * generates ideas from own experiences and observations

                * chooses topics independently

                * generates details related to the central topic

                * shares ideas in complete sentences

                * expresses ideas in logical order

                * begins to use a planner (pre-write) to organize their ideas

                * reads own writing and revises by adding details,  with guidance  

The student produces various types of writing for different audiences and purposes:

                * small moments

                * informational writing

                * journals

                * poetry

                * content areas responses

The student demonstrates an understanding of the following conventions:

                * writes using complete sentences (spaces, periods, capital letters)

                * begins to explore the use of other punctuation (question marks, exclamation marks, comma)  

                * spells many words conventionally or with readable phonetic spelling

                * uses appropriate grammar in their sentences

                * begins to edit for capitals and punctuation

                * prints letters legibly