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Main Idea
(Writing focus)
1.1 1 Create multiple-paragraph narrative compositions:
a. Establish and develop a situation or plot.
b. Describe the setting.
c. Present an ending.
1.22 Create multiple-paragraph expository compositions:
a. Establish a topic, important ideas, or events in sequence or chronological order.
b. Provide details and transitional expressions that link one paragraph to another in a
clear line of thought.
c. Offer a concluding paragraph that summarizes important ideas and details.
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References
1.3 1 Use organizational features of printed text (e.g., citations, end notes, bibliographic
references) to locate relevant information.
1.4n/a Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing organizational
features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus, word searches, a thesaurus, spell
checks).
1.5 1 Use a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings.
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Penmanship and Word Processing
Key Standard
1.6 5 Edit and revise manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus of writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences.
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Formal Narrative
Writing
2.1 Write narratives:
a. Establish a plot, point of view, setting, and conflict.
b. Show, rather than tell, the events of the story..
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Lit Response
2.2 Write responses to literature:
a. Demonstrate an understanding of a literary work.
b. Support judgments through references to the text and to prior knowledge.
c. Develop interpretations that exhibit careful reading and understanding.
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References
2.3 Write research reports about important ideas, issues, or events by using the following
guidelines:
a. Frame questions that direct the investigation.
b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.
c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.
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Formal Narrative
Writing
2.4 Write persuasive letters or compositions:
a. State a clear position in support of a proposal.
b. Support a position with relevant evidence.
c. Follow a simple organizational pattern.
d. Address reader concerns.
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Sentences and Phrases
Key Standard
1.1 4 Identify and correctly use prepositional phrases, appositives, and independent and dependent clauses; use transitions and conjunctions to connect ideas.
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Parts of Speech
1.2 3 Identify and correctly use verbs that are often misused (e.g., lie/lay, sit/set, rise/raise),
modifiers, and pronouns.
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Capitals and Punctuation
1.33 Use a colon to separate hours and minutes and to introduce a list; use quotation marks
around the exact words of a speaker and titles of poems, songs, short stories, and so forth.
1.4 3 Use correct capitalization.
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Spelling
Key Standard
1.5 4 Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable constructions correctly.
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Strategies |
Comprehension
Q&A
1.1 Ask questions that seek information not already discussed.
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Connect and Clarify
1.2 Interpret a speaker’s verbal and nonverbal messages, purposes, and perspectives.
1.3 Make inferences or draw conclusions based on an oral report.
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Organization and delivery of oral communication
Sequencing
1.4 Select a focus, organizational structure, and point of view for an oral presentation.
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Information Delivery
1.6Engage the audience with appropriate verbal cues, facial expressions, and gestures.
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Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications
Vocabulary
1.7 Identify, analyze, and critique persuasive techniques (e.g., promises, dares, flattery,
glittering generalities); identify logical fallacies used in oral presentations and media messages.
1.8 Analyze media as sources for information, entertainment, persuasion, interpretation of
events, and transmission of culture.
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2.1 Deliver narrative presentations:
a. Establish a situation, plot, point of view, and setting with descriptive words and
phrases.
b. Show, rather than tell, the listener what happens.
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2.2 Deliver informative presentations about an important idea, issue, or event by the following
means:
a. Frame questions to direct the investigation.
b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.
c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.
2.3Deliver oral responses to literature:
a. Summarize significant events and details.
b. Articulate an understanding of several ideas or images communicated by the literary
work.
c. Use examples or textual evidence from the work to support conclusions.
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