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Writing Standards Color Guide

This document provides a color-coding system for writing standards across different types of writing. It assigns colors to different levels of writing abilities in areas like responding to literature, narratives, functional writing, and report writing. For each color, it lists 1-3 brief descriptions of the writing skills and understanding demonstrated at that level. The system is meant to track student progress and provide guidelines for writing expectations across genres.

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Writing Standards Color Guide

This document provides a color-coding system for writing standards across different types of writing. It assigns colors to different levels of writing abilities in areas like responding to literature, narratives, functional writing, and report writing. For each color, it lists 1-3 brief descriptions of the writing skills and understanding demonstrated at that level. The system is meant to track student progress and provide guidelines for writing expectations across genres.

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Color-Coding System

Writing Standards

Color Response to Literature Narratives Functional Writing Report Writing


Green 4. Re-enacts and retells stories. 5. Imitates narrative elements
and derives stories from books
they have read or had read to
them.
Yellow 9. Makes explicit reference to 1. Evidences a plan in their 1. Can give instructions. 1. Gathers information pertinent
parts of the text when writing. to a topic, sort it into major
presenting or defending a categories.
claim.
Blue 7. Compares two books by the 4. Demonstrates a growing 2. Describes, in appropriate 3. Demonstrates ability to
same author. awareness of author’s craft by sequence and with a few communicate with readers by
employing some writing details, the steps one must take using details to develop their
strategies. to make or do a particular points; sometimes including
thing. pictures, diagrams, maps and
other graphics.
Orange 10. Presents a plausible 3. Frequently incorporates
interpretation of a book. drawings, diagrams or other
suitable graphics with written
text.
Brown 8. Discusses several books on 2. Independently recognizes and
the same theme. exclude or delete extraneous
information.
Purple 5. Produces simple evaluative 2. Develops a narrative or
expressions. retelling containing two or more
appropriately sequenced events.
Red 6. Makes simple comparisons 3. Claims, marks or identifies (3) pays attention to signing off
of the story to events or people objects and places.
in their own lives.
Black 1. Writes stories, memoirs, 6. In some cases, begins to
poems, songs and other literary recount not just events but also
forms. reactions.
Pink 2. Demonstrates an ability to
reproduce some literary
language and styles they hear
and read.
Light Blue 3. Imitates a text or writes in a
genre.

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