Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple
texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to
compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The
student is expected to:
(1) plan a first draft by select...
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple
texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to
compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The
student is expected to:
(1) plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a
particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as
brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;
(A) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and
coherent piece of writing by:
(B) organizing with purposeful structure, including an
introduction, transitions, and a conclusion; and
(i) developing an engaging idea with relevant details;
(ii) revise drafts to improve sentence structure and
word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence
and clarity;
(C) edit drafts using standard English conventions,
including:
(D) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb
agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
(i) past tense of irregular verbs;
(ii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
(iii) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative
forms;
(iv) capitalization of historical periods, events, and
documents; titles of books; stories and essays; and languages, races, and
nationalities;
(v) adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
(vii) pronouns, including
reflexive;
(viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects,
predicates, and sentences;
(ix) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in
possessives, commas in compound sentences, and quotation
marks in dialogue; and
(x) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate
orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
(xi) publish written work for appropriate audiences.
