ELA.5.W.3
PriorityStudents draft content within the genre, using tools effectively.
- a.Generate ideas for topics, genres, and materials.
- b.Gather ideas and select relevant material from research, images, and/or multimedia artifacts that illustrate and support their ideas, identifying when and how it's fair to use the creative work of others.
- c.Select features and/or genre conventions to follow or adapt from mentor texts.
- d.Develop descriptions using concrete, sensory details and figurative language.
- e.Develop points and ideas within a topic with facts, definitions, details, examples, and/or quotations, using linking words to connect ideas.
- f.Examine and explain relationships between information and ideas within a topic to draw conclusions.
- g.Support points by using evidence from texts, paraphrasing, summarizing, and/or selecting quotations when relevant.
- h.Support a position with facts and reasons.
- i.Use strategic language to persuade others with feelings, logical reasonings, evidence, and examples.
- j.Use a variety of narrative techniques (e.g., dialogue, pacing, event sequences, descriptive details) to develop events and characters as appropriate to the genre.
- k.Attribute sources in ways that are consistent with the genre.
Common Core: RI.5.9 W.5.1 W.5.1a W.5.1b W.5.1c W.5.2 W.5.2a W.5.2b W.5.2c W.5.2d W.5.3 W.5.3b W.5.3c W.5.3d W.5.8
ResourcesWIDAOSPI
WIDA language connections2
Inform · Interpretivelistening, reading and viewing
ELD-LA.4-5.Inform.Interpretive · Language for Language Arts, Grades 4-5
Interpret informational texts in language arts by…
- Identifying and summarizing main ideas and key details
- Analyzing details and examples for key attributes, qualities, and characteristics
- Evaluating the impact of key word choices in a text
Inform · Expressivespeaking, writing and representing
ELD-LA.4-5.Inform.Expressive · Language for Language Arts, Grades 4-5
Construct informational texts in language arts that…
- Introduce and define topic and/or entity for audience
- Establish objective or neutral stance
- Add precision and details to define, describe, compare, and classify topic and/or entity
- Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text
OSPI's example connections to the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. How to read these
From OSPI
Smarter Balanced interim assessment
- Research: Interpret and Integrate
- Research Target 2, items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Write and Revise Informational Texts
- Writing Target 3a, item 5
- Research: Use Evidence
- Research Target 4, items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- Performance Task (Informational): Recycling
- Writing Target 4, item 4
- Write and Revise Opinion Texts
- Writing Target 6a, item 2