Writing+Level+K+Essential+Learnings

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== **EL 1:** Students will express their thoughts using both pictures and phonetic representation of words. ==
 * 1) Students will use pictures, letters, and words to communicate thoughts and ideas.
 * 2) Students will use phonetic spelling to label pictures.
 * 3) Students will demonstrate the relationship between pictures and words.
 * 4) Students will write left to right and top to bottom.

== **EL 2:** Students will identify and begin to recognize conventions of writing. ==
 * 1) Students will recognize and begin to use the appropriate use of capital letters in names and at the beginning of a sentence.
 * 2) Students will recognize and begin to use spacing between words.
 * 3) Students will recognize and begin to use ending punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation mark).

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