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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are 1st grade writing standards.   1st grade, when many children are just learning to read ...and yet they are supposed to write "opinion pieces."

Text Types and Purposes:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.1
Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.[/quote]

I think the big words (like informative, explanatory, narrative, and recount, sequenced...." are scary to you.

I'll explain in "first grade" speak for you:

informative/explanatory mean -- tell what you learned
narrative/recount mean "tell what happened in a story"
Sequence/temporal mean "say what happened first, next and last"

They are just big eduspeak words we folks in education use.   Once you learn the jargon, it doesn't sound so scary!
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