Room 141

Good fifth grade writers:

• Always spell no excuse words correctly
• Contractions should always have the apostrophe in the correct place.
• Words you see in a book or in the word (all you have to do is copy) should always be spelled correctly.
• Names should always be spelled correctly and be capitalized.
• Proper nouns are always capitalized.
• Tough words should be spelled correctly on a final draft but may be misspelled on a rough draft.
• All sentences are complete and have correct punctuation on the end.
• All sentences start with a capital.
• Paragraphs should always be correct.
• Quotation marks should be used correctly most of the time.
• Question and exclamation marks should be used correctly all of the time.
• Colons and semi colons should be use correctly some of the time (and we should ask for help of look in a book to learn how to use them).
• Comma’s should be used correctly all of the time.
• Accent marks should only be used if we know how to use them.