INFORMATIONAL WRITING CHECKLIST—FIRST GRADE



PERSUASIVE WRITING CHECKLIST

FOURTH GRADE |[pic] | |

| |Georgia Performance Standard: English/Language Arts 4th Grade, |

|Standard: |Writing 2 |

| |(GPS ELA4W2) |

|Criteria/Performance Indicators |Introducing |Practicing |Achieving |

|Engages the reader | | | |

|Establishes a context and develops reader’s interest by | | | |

|Introducing the reader to the issue | | | |

|Including an appeal to logic and/or emotion | | | |

|Creates a persona (speaker’s voice) by | | | |

|Using a lively writing voice to engage the reader | | | |

|Using engaging, precise language | | | |

|Clearly establishes and states a position | | | |

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|Creates multi-paragraph organizing structure for the purpose of persuasion | | | |

|Fully develops the writer’s position with | | | |

|Specific facts | | | |

|Personal experience and knowledge | | | |

|Statistics (when appropriate) | | | |

|Supports a position with relevant evidence and excludes inappropriate information/details | | | |

|Uses strategies to provide a sense of closure to writing | | | |

|Summary | | | |

|Quote | | | |

|Anecdote | | | |

|Unusual fact | | | |

|Criteria/Performance Indicators |Introducing |Practicing |Achieving |

|Conventions | | | |

|Uses strategies to make effective word choices (specific, accurate words or phrases; lively, active verbs| | | |

|and specific adjectives that add depth) | | | |

|Uses a variety of sentence structures | | | |

|Kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, functional fragment) | | | |

|Order (varies sentence beginnings and endings | | | |

|Complexity | | | |

|Simple | | | |

|Compound | | | |

|Complex | | | |

|Demonstrates correct usage in a variety of contexts | | | |

|Subject-verb agreement | | | |

|Word forms (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) | | | |

|Pronoun-antecedent agreement | | | |

|Incorporates use of correct mechanics to promote clarity | | | |

|End marks | | | |

|Commas (appositives, words in direct address, compound sentences, complex sentences) | | | |

|Semi-colons | | | |

|Paragraph indentions | | | |

|Apostrophes | | | |

|Quotation marks | | | |

|Eliminates fragments and run-ons | | | |

|Uses correct standard English spelling and capitalization when writing, revising and editing | | | |

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