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Essential Writing Workshop Guide for 1st Grade: Topic Sentences and Elaboration Strategies

This comprehensive guide outlines the grading breakdown for 1st-grade writing assessments, detailing key components for crafting effective topic sentences and concluding sentences. It emphasizes the importance of strong verbs and the identification of "Star Ideas" within paragraphs. Students are encouraged to highlight their main ideas and supporting details, as well as to engage in good close reading practices. The document also provides essential tips for avoiding common writing pitfalls, such as unnecessary personal pronouns and the need for proper formatting and citation practices.

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Essential Writing Workshop Guide for 1st Grade: Topic Sentences and Elaboration Strategies

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  1. Writing Workshop 1

  2. Grade Breakdown • 6 100-A • 5 90-A • 4 80-B • 3 70- C • 2 60- D • 1 55- F • 0 Did not turn in

  3. Topic Sentence • Highlight/Underline the first sentence and last sentence of your paragraph(s) in green • Check to see if your topic sentence could be improved by adding a strong verb and making sure that it states the idea of that paragraph • Check to see if your concluding sentence takes a stance or revisits the topic in some way

  4. Locate your Star Ideas • Highlight in yellow or place a big star next to your big ideas • If you have trouble finding them, chances are your reader (that’s me) will too.

  5. Elaboration Highlight the support for your Star Ideas in pink or underline in red Ask yourself: 1) Do you have enough support? 2) Is what you wrote even supporting a star idea or is it just rambling?

  6. What Works? • Good close reading • Making a T-chart Papers with t-charts were astoundingly better organized. • Quoting part of the article and then responding to that quote specifically Let’s look at one example of a 6 level paper by Simiah Johnson.

  7. Needs Improvement • Avoid stating the obvious: Get rid of all of the following: I think Personally In my opinion I believe that As you can see

  8. Get Rid of 2nd Person Pronouns • That means ABSOLUTELY NO • You • We • Us • Me in formal writing.

  9. Inserting Quotes Remember TAG! Title Author Genre According to the article “Elon Studies the Future of ‘Generation Always-On’” by Dan Anderson, youth of today have a “thirst for instant gratification.” According to a study by Elon University, young people are living a “hyper-connected lifestyle.” Danah Boyd, senior researcher with Microsoft, stated, “There is no doubt that brains are being rewired.”

  10. Take yourself out of the paper! • Instead of saying, “I also read in the article…” • Say “According to the article,” or “The article states,”

  11. Format • 12 pt. font, New Times Roman or Courier • Indent for new paragraphs • Double-spaced Heading Top right hand corner • Your Name • Teacher’s Name • Subject • Date Assignment is Due

  12. Numbers • Each number corresponds with a specific grammatical error • Locate the correct handout in your Writers’ Notebook and write the rule for the error you made. • Correct this error in your paper also.

  13. Next Thursday • Bring in your original paper. • Your revised paper. • Your corrections (the rules) written out. • Your Writers’ Workshop Checklist

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