Grade

Level

Skills Previously Introduced

New Skills

K
EDITING SKILLS PROGRESSION

1. Capitalize proper nouns

and the word I
Based on SOL
grammar
progression
and
grade
5 writing
test blueprint
1. Capitalize proper nouns
1. Use
complete
sentences
1
and the word I
1. Capitalize proper nouns
1. Use singular and plural
2
and the word I.
nouns and pronouns.
2. Use complete sentences.
2. Use apostrophes in
contractions and singular
possessives.
3. Use past and present verb
tense.
4. Use singular possessives.
5. Use and punctuate
declarative, interrogative,
and exclamatory sentences.
6. Use knowledge of simple
abbreviations.
7. Use correct spelling for
commonly used sight words,
including compound and
regular plurals

8. Use commas in the salutation

and closing of a letter.
9. Use verbs and adjectives
correctly in sentences

Thoughts and Ideas

PRIMARY GRADES
-Starts with capitalizationkids
come in writing all caps,
graduate to all lower case
(some know one but not the
other)
-Starts with modeling before its
even formally introduced
(Actual SKILL is fourth quarter in
kindergarten)
-Encourage beginning readers
and writers to point out
something in the sentence that
you know
-Teachers find that writing
doesnt match letter sound
knowledge
-Start by drawing pictures and
have them orally describe the
pictures
-When teaching the first skill,
note that beginning readers
often confuse letter I with word I
-Works well to simultaneously
introduce capital letter at
beginning, period at the end.
-Report card standard says
begin with upper case letter,
end with period
-Model oral language: pronouns
(he v she)