ELAR 5.11
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 reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and 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) collective nouns;
- (iii) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
- (iv) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
- (v) conjunctive adverbs;
- (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
- (vii) pronouns, including indefinite;
- (viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;
- (ix) punctuation marks, including commas in compound and complex sentences, quotation marks in dialogue, and italics and underlining for titles and emphasis; 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.
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Christmas Worksheet - Sentence Editing
Edit and correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and spacing errors with a set of Christmas Fix the Sentence worksheets.
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Paired Passage Worksheets-Mammals vs. Reptiles
Compare mammals vs. reptiles and add to your reading instruction with leveled nonfiction, compare and contrast passages and worksheets.
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Christmas - Simple, Complex, and Compound Sentence Sort
Practice reading, identifying, and writing simple, compound, and complex sentences with a Christmas cut and paste worksheet.
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Glorious Grammar Volume 1 Workbook
50 activities in one booklet which all revolve around learning grammar in the classroom.
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Dressing Up A Sentence - Interactive or Printable Activity
Encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing with this activity.
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Cut and Paste Shades of Meaning Verb Sort
Engage your students in exploring subtle differences between verbs with this set of two cut and paste worksheets.
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Common Adjectives for Kids - Printable Adjective List
Print your students a list of adjectives to keep at hand when writing to help them use descriptive language.
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Informative Text Writing Task – How Does the Water Cycle Work?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
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Fall Color By Part of Speech Worksheet - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
Use this color by part of speech worksheet as a fun fall activity with your students.
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Google Slides - Adjectives Interactive Activity
Provide your students with engaging, interactive activities to help them improve their usage of descriptive adjectives.
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Adverb Crossword – Worksheet
A crossword for students to review different adverbs.
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What Causes the Seasons? Informative Text Writing Task
Use this scaffolded writing task to have students write about how seasons change.
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Comma Llama - Comma Rules Anchor Chart
Make learning comma rules engaging and memorable with our Comma Llama - Comma Rules Anchor Chart!
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Free Talking Marks Worksheets
Download your free Talking Marks Worksheets and give your students additional practice adding quotations to dialogue.
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Pronouns Teaching Slides
Use these pronoun slides to teach your students about some of the most common types of pronouns.
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Informative Text Writing Task – Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?
Research and write about how volcanoes erupt with a scaffolded informational writing task.
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Better Verb Choice Words Pack
Help your students during their writing with this set of visually appealing verb posters and verb word mat.
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Tell Me a Story - Dialogue Picture Prompts
Make writing dialogue fun and engaging with our ‘Tell Me a Story’ dialogue picture prompts!
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Dialogue Tags List - Vocabulary Chart
Use a Dialogue Tags list to expand your students’ vocabularies and encourage better character development in their writing.
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Types of Verbs Teaching Slides
Teach students about the different types of verbs with this set of 38 teaching slides with activities.
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Christmas Plural Nouns Worksheet
Practice identifying singular and plural nouns with this Christmas worksheet.
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Grammar Grid Mystery Picture Worksheet- Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives (Bunny)
Follow the color-coded parts of speech guide to fill in the word grid and reveal a mystery image.
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Sensory Chart Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use when categorizing sensory details.
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Informative Text Writing Task – How Does a Plane Fly?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
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Opinion Prompt Cards – Set 1
Practice writing opinion or persuasive text with this set of 20 topic cards.
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Opinion Prompt Cards – Set 2
Practice writing opinion or persuasive text with this set of 20 topic cards.
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Punctuation Poster
A cute punctuation poster to display in your classroom.
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Writing Compound-Complex Sentences Worksheet
Use a Compound-Complex Sentences Worksheet to help your upper elementary and middle school students learn to use advanced sentence structures in their writing.
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Digital Comma Activities - Interactive Slide Deck
Engage your upper elementary and middle school students with Digital Comma Activities to help them practice using different comma rules.
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Talking Animals - Writing Dialogue Interactive Slide Deck
Practice writing dialogue and proving that “Animals Can Talk!” with an exciting slide deck and digital learning activity.
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Proper Punctuation Chart Pack - Upper Elementary
Encourage proper punctuation with a printable punctuation chart pack for upper elementary.
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Grammar Practice Worksheets - Vocabulary Cut and Sort
Review parts of speech and word usage skills with a pack of cut-and-paste Grammar Sorting Worksheets.