The goal of the lesson is to help students be able to write clear, coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing will show they consider their audience and purpose as they progress through the stages of the writing process (e.g., pre-writing, drafting, and revising, editing successive versions). As a result of these activities, students will be able to meet the State of California content standards in the following areas:

1. Writing Strategies
2. Organization and Focus
3. Penmanship
   
4. Evaluation and Revision
5. Written and Oral Language Conventions
6. Listening and Speaking
   
7. Sentence Structure
8. Grammar
9. Punctuation
10. Capitalization
    
11. Spelling