Recognize your work using a checklist.

After you make major corrections, look at your spelling and grammar.

Perfect final draft

Includes in-depth research to form an argument (opinion) with evidence to support your opinion.

Includes verifiable facts that are on-topic/evidence from a text.

These essays are often anecdotal, experiential and personal. Allows students to express themselves in a creative and moving way (telling story)

Essays that describe something- object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation, etc.

Scribble stage

Strings and groups of letters. Cannot write a complete word on their own.

Ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.

Digital tool that helps students to collaborate with presentations at the same time.

Understanding the relationship between sounds and the spelling patterns representing those sounds.

The ability to string together the sounds that each letter stands for in a word.