Writing: Students will develop and strengthen writing by engaging in a recursive process that includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.

Students will apply components of a recursive writing process for multiple purposes to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing.

Students will plan (e.g., outline) and prewrite a first draft as necessary.

Students will develop drafts by choosing an organizational structure (e.g., description, compare/contrast, sequential, problem/solution, cause/effect, etc.) and building on ideas in multi-paragraph essays.

Students will edit and revise multiple drafts for organization, transitions to improve coherence and meaning, using a consistent point of view.

Students will use resources to find correct spellings of words (e.g., word wall, vocabulary notebook, print and electronic dictionaries, and spell-check).