This second-grade writing checklist helps students ensure their writing is clear, complete, and follows basic rules.
- Ideas and Content
- Write about one main idea
- Stay on topic
- Use interesting details
- Include a beginning, middle, and end
- Organization
- Write a title
- Start with a strong opening sentence
- Use linking words (and, but, because)
- End with a concluding sentence
- Voice
- Show your personality
- Write like you talk
- Make it interesting for readers
- Use feeling words
- Word Choice
- Use descriptive words
- Avoid repeating the same words
- Use action words
- Choose words that match the readers’ level
- Sentence Fluency
- Write complete sentences
- Vary sentence lengths
- Start sentences differently
- Make sure sentences flow together
- Conventions
- Check spelling
- Use capital letters correctly
- End sentences with punctuation
- Use proper grammar