01-+INTRODUCTION


 * INTRODUCTION**

This activity is a fun way to incorporate holiday activities with age appropriate writing skills. The students create greeting cards to special persons for a special holiday.


 * Standards**

-The student focuses on a central idea or topic (for example, excluding loosely related, extraneous, or repetitious information).

-The student uses an organizational pattern appropriate to purpose and audience.

-The student uses an effective organizational pattern and substantial support to achieve a sense of completeness or wholeness (for example, considering audience, choosing effective words, sequencing events; using specific details to clarify meaning).

-The student generally follows the conventions of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate at fourth-grade or higher level.

-The student revises draft to further develop a piece of writing by adding, deleting, and rearranging ideas and details.

-The student communicates in English and other languages using information, concepts, prose, symbols, reports, audio and video recordings, speeches, graphic displays, and computer-based programs.