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Main Idea
(Writing focus)
1.11 Create a single paragraph:
a. Develop a topic sentence.
b. Include simple supporting facts and details.
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Penmanship and Word Processing
1.22 Write legibly in cursive or joined italic, allowing margins and correct spacing between
letters in a word and words in a sentence.
1.43 Revise drafts to improve the coherence and logical progression of ideas by using an established rubric.
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Formal Narrative
Writing
2.1 Write narratives:
a. Provide a context within which an action takes place.
b. Include well-chosen details to develop the plot.
c. Provide insight into why the selected incident is memorable.
2.2 Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified
impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
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References
2.3 Write information reports:
a. Frame a central question about an issue or situation.
b. Include facts and details for focus.
c. Draw from more than one source of information (e.g., speakers, books, newspapers,
other media sources).
2.4 Write information reports:
a. Frame a central question about an issue or situation.
b. Include facts and details for focus.
c. Draw from more than one source of information (e.g., speakers, books, newspapers,
other media sources).
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Sentences and Phrases
1.11 Understand and be able to use complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in writing and speaking
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Parts of Speech
1.2 1 Identify subjects and verbs that are in agreement and identify and use pronouns, adjectives, compound words, and articles correctly in writing and speaking.
1.3 1 Identify and use past, present, and future verb tenses properly in writing and speaking.
1.42 Identify and use subjects and verbs correctly in speaking and writing simple sentences
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Capitals and Punctuation
1.52 Punctuate dates, city and state, and titles of books correctly.
Penmanship
1.6 1 Use commas in dates, locations, and addresses and for items in a series.
1.7 2 Capitalize geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events correctly .
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Spelling
1.8 2 Spell correctly one-syllable words that have blends, contractions, compounds, orthographic patterns (e.g., qu, consonant doubling, changing the ending of a word from y to ies when forming the plural), and common homophones (e.g., hair-hare)
1.9 1 Arrange words in alphabetical order.
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