Second Grade Learning Expectations
Essential Learning 1: The student writes clearly and effectively.Writing Skill 1.5: Begins to use correct verb terse agreement.
Strategies:
- Present
mini-lessons on verb tense agreement.
- During
shared reading, the teacher points out how nouns and verbs go together.
- D.O.L
and/or a Morning Message are used (see Invitations by Reggie Routman)
to reinforce verb tense agreement.
- Students
peer conference their work to help each other check for verb tense agreement.
- Conduct writing conferences with students to help them check for verb tense agreement.
Resources:
- Write
Idea
- Daily
Oral Language, Macmillan
- Seeing
With New Eyes by Vicki Spandel
- Invitations by Reggie Routman
Assessment:
- Student
writing sample
- Writing Assessment Rubric - parallel to WASL Rubric