• Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator portrays them

• Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing shows they consider the audience and purpose.
• Students progress through the stages of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing successive versions)
• Write narratives: Include well-chosen details to develop the plot
• Vocabulary and concept development
• Use a dictionary to learn the meaning and other features of unknown words
• Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified impressions of people, places, things, or experiences
• Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level

• Organization and delivery of oral communication
• Clarify and enhance oral presentations through the use of appropriate props (objects, pictures, charts)
• Make brief narrative presentations: Include well-chosen details to develop character, setting, and plot

• Identify personality traits possessed by the characters in the story and show how traits directly influence a character's actions and drive the plot
• Use the Seeing Reason Tool to construct a cause-and-effect map
• Use imagination to write a second ending to the story that shows understanding of the relationship between characterization and plot
• Write creatively and apply character traits in a cinquain poem
• Persuade in a short oral presentation why a new ending is plausible, based on understanding of the characters' personalities

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