Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Identify strengths and weaknesses in their own writing and seek effective help from others.	Develop an idea using several supporting details and evaluate through teacher/peer conferences, using a rubric based on the Idea trait.			Students will self-assess a piece of writing for the Idea trait and ask for feedback.	Students will do a self-assessment using the Idea trait.	Rubric Ideas
2. Improve their finished product by revising content from draft to final piece.	Students will revise to improve their writing based on the traits of *Ideas *Organization *Word Choice *Conventions			After conferencing with a teacher or peer, students will use the feedback given to revise content.	Students demonstrate the ability to revise content from draft to final piece.	revision feedback organization word choice convention
3. Use planning, drafting, and revising to produce, on-demand, a well developed, organized piece that demonstrates effective language use, voice, and command of mechanics.	Same as 2.			Students will practice developing pieces of writing in response to an assigned response.	Fall/Spring writing prompts and/or teacher selected pieces of students writing.	.
4. Report orally and summarize personal discoveries they have made as a result of reading and viewing.	Students will organize and present an oral report.			Students will give a brief oral presentation of information on insights learned from his/her reading or viewing.	Teacher observation.	.
5. Give accurate directions.	Students will give multistep directions orally and in writing.			Students will practice writing and giving orally a set of directions.	Students will write and present a set of directions on a teacher given activity (ex., making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich).	.
6. Summarize central concepts from oral presentations.	Students will discuss information after listening to a speaker.