MAJOR CONCEPTS YOUR CHILD WILL BE WORKING ON THIS YEAR:

• Write narratives to develop real and imagined events; include dialogue, character actions, sensory details, transitional words, and a conclusion

• Strengthen writing by planning, revising, editing

• Write opinion pieces that include organizational structures, reasons to support the opinion, linking words and concluding statements

• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce writing

• Take notes and categorize information from print and digital sources

• Write informative/expository texts that include facts, definitions, details, formatting, linking words, precise language, and concluding statements.