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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Let’s Eat Grandma, Commas Save Lives Poster Pack
Display a fun ‘Commas Save Lives’ poster to remind your students of the importance of including commas in their writing.
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Run-On Sentence Practice - Worksheet Pack
Give your students more run-on sentence practice with a Run-On Sentence Worksheet pack.
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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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Free Talking Marks Worksheets
Download your free Talking Marks Worksheets and give your students additional practice adding quotations to dialogue.
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Indefinite Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use this indefinite pronouns worksheet pack to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
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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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Pronouns Anchor Charts
Display this set of 7 pronouns anchor charts in your classroom to remind your students of the most common types of pronouns and their uses.
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Expository Writing – Natural Disaster Project
Get your students producing high-quality writing with this fully scaffolded natural disasters project, where students research, organize and publish an expository text about a natural disaster.
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Using Quotation Marks Flipbook
Explore punctuation rules surrounding quotation marks with a printable Quotation Marks Flipbook template.
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Macaroni Quotation Marks Center Activity
Practice using quotation marks in sentences with an engaging Macaroni Noodle Quotation Marks Writing Center!
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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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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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Picture the Dialogue - Punctuation Worksheet Pack
Improve students’ abilities to write dialogue using correct punctuation with a set of printable ‘Picture the Dialogue’ writing worksheets.
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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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Quotation Marks Quiz
Test your students' skills on how to use quotation marks with a printable ‘Using Quotation Marks Quiz’.
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Quotation Punctuation Interactive Game
Make learning about quotation marks more exciting with an Interactive Quotation Marks Punctuation Game!
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Quotation Marks Anchor Chart
Display the rules for using speech marks using a printable Quotation Marks Anchor Chart.
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Quotation Mark Sorting Worksheet
Sort examples of correct and incorrect dialogue punctuation with a cut-and-paste quotation marks worksheet.
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'Wheely' Wonderful Dialogue Tags Spinner
Spice up your students' writings and help them choose better dialogue tags with a ‘Wheely’ Wonderful Dialogue Tag Spinner.
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Types of Verbs Poster Set
Explore the different types of verbs with this set of verb posters displaying the definition and examples of action, saying, thinking and relating verbs.
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Punctuation Mark Anchor Charts
Display this set of 6 punctuation anchor charts in your classroom to remind your students of the most common punctuation marks and their uses.
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V.O.I.C.E.S. - 6 Traits of Writing Poster Pack
Improve student writing using our V.O.I.C.E.S. 6 Traits of Writing Poster Pack!
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Strong Verbs Teaching Slides
Discover how to use strong verbs in sentences with this set of teaching slides.
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Writing Out Loud: Dialogue Punctuation Teaching Presentation
Teach your students how to write dialogue correctly with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Punctuating Dialogue - Worksheet Pack
Reinforce understanding of how to punctuate direct speech with differentiated quotation marks worksheets.
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Changing Indirect Speech to Direct Speech Worksheet
Practice converting indirect speech to direct speech with differentiated editing worksheets.
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Changing Direct Speech to Indirect Speech Worksheet
Convert direct speech to indirect speech with differentiated quotation mark worksheets.
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Direct and Indirect Speech in Comics – Worksheet
Practice writing direct and indirect speech using a set of printable Direct Speech Comic Book worksheets.
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Subordinating Conjunctions (Cause and Effect) Interactive Activity
Use this interactive digital activity to help students identify cause and effect subordinating conjunctions, and construct sentences using this part of speech.
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Subordinating Conjunctions for Contrast Interactive Activity
Assign this multiple choice subordinating conjunctions for contrast interactive activity for your students to correctly identify this type of conjunction in given sentences.
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Subordinating Conjunctions Worksheet
Use this worksheet to enable students to practice identifying and constructing sentences using subordinating conjunctions.
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Subordinating Conjunctions for Time – Interactive Activity
Assign this multiple-choice subordinating conjunctions for time interactive activity for your students to correctly identify this type of conjunction in given sentences.