Welcome To Second Grade

Brainstorming Ideas

 

Children develop ideas and fill in a graphic organizer.

 

Rough Draft

   

Students use the completed graphic organizer to create a rough copy.

 

Revision

                                                      

The children work to revise the rough copies by:

* incorporating specific details                                                               

* including descriptive words and phrases                                                                   

* creating varied sentence beginnings                                                                  

* using more interesting and creative words                                                                

* developing attention-grabbing beginning and closing sentences

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Editing

                                                      

They edit the stories by:                 

* correcting spelling errors

* checking for appropriate capitalization for sentence beginnings,names and the word "I"                                                          * making sure punctuation is included

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Final Copy

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The students create an error-free final copy of their story.