Dearborn Educational Curriculum

Text Types and Purposes: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

Text Types and Purposes: Establish and maintain a formal style.

Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

Text Types and Purposes: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.

Text Types and Purposes: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

Text Types and Purposes: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.

Text Types and Purposes: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.

Text Types and Purposes: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

Production and Distribution of Writing: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)