Forms

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Purpose

The genre below should be introduced at the stated grade level;

they should be further refined and practiced at following grade levels.

Recount

 To tell what happened

INTRODUCE recounts using:

Personal experiences;

Journaling

FOCUS recounts adding:

Friendly letters

REFINE recounts adding:

Learning logs

REFINE recounts adding:

Autobiographies

Diaries

REFINE recounts adding:

Biographies

REFINE recounts adding:

News articles

REFINE

recounts adding:

Memoirs

Narrative

To entertain and engage the reader

EXPOSE students to Narrative writing

INTRODUCE

Narrative using:

Imaginative narrative;

Retelling

FOCUS Narrative adding:

Realistic fiction (experiential narrative)

REFINE Narrative adding:

Fairy tales or folk tales or fables or tall tales

REFINE

Narrative adding:

Myths or legends

REFINE Narrative adding:

Historical fiction

REFINE narrative writing through review and the content areas, emphasizing the use of  figurative language.

Procedure

Tell how to do something

EXPOSE

students to procedure  writing

INTRODUCE procedure  writing using:

“How to” instructions

FOCUS procedure  writing adding:

Problem-solving steps;

Learning logs

REFINE procedure  writing adding:

Directions (location);

Rules

REFINE procedure  writing adding:

Recipes;

Schedules

REFINE procedure  writing adding:

Science experiments, Lab reports

REFINE procedure  writing through review and content areas.

Report

To classify and/or describe

INTRODUCE report writing using:

Lists;

Labels;

Captions

INTRODUCE report writing using:

Answers to questions

INTRODUCE report writing using:

Research reports

FOCUS report writing adding:

Book reports;

Summaries

REFINE report writing adding:

Character analysis;

Business letters to explain or request

REFINE report writing adding:

Brochures or

Pamphlets;

Literary analysis (setting, plot, character)

REFINE report  writing through review and content areas.

Literary analysis (theme)

Explanation

To explain how and/or why

INTRODUCE explanations using:

Informational sentence

INTRODUCE explanations using:

Answers to questions

INTRODUCE

explanations using:

Thank you letters,

Learning logs

FOCUS explanations using:

Research reports;

Essays;

Paraphrases

FOCUS explanations adding:

Informational posters;

Personal essays

REFINE explanations adding:

Editorials;

Social Studies based essays

REFINE explanations adding:

Interviews

Science based essays

Persuasive

To convince from a particular point of view

To motivate to action

EXPOSE

students to persuasive writing

EXPOSE students to persuasive writing

EXPOSE

students to persuasive writing

EXPOSE

students to persuasive writing

INTRODUCE persuasion using:

Advertisements

FOCUS persuasion adding:

Letters to persuade or complain;

Letters to the editor

FOCUS persuasion adding:

Essays

Poetry

To entertain, motivate, inspire

INTRODUCE

poetry using:

Chants

INTRODUCE poetry using:

Rhymes

REFINE poetry adding:

Patterned poetry

REFINE poetry adding:

Song lyrics

REFINE poetry adding:

Cinquain

Septains

REFINE poetry adding:

Ballads

Haiku

REFINE poetry adding:

Limericks and other  classic formats