English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
| 15. Analyze meaningful parts (morphemes) of words and phrases in discussions and/or text.
a. Identify meaningful parts of words (morphemes) and use them as clues to the meaning of unfamiliar words, including base words, roots, and frequently occurring affixes and inflections.
Examples: affixes -less, -ful, pro-, trans- ; roots aqua, cent, port, form, ject, spect, dict, tend, fer
b. Apply knowledge of the changes in tense (-ed), number (-s), and degree (-er and -est) signified by inflected endings to determine the meaning of a word.
c. Identify common and derivational prefixes and suffixes and use them as clues to a word's meaning.
Examples: pre-, re-, mis-; -ly, -less, -ful, -able, -ment
d. Identify common Latin and Greek roots and use them to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
e. Sort words with shared and varied suffixes by parts of speech. |
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 4
| 39. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
a. Use relative pronouns who, whose, which, and that, relative adverbs where, when, and how, and irregular possessive nouns.
b. Form and use the progressive verb tenses.
Examples: I was walking, I am walking
c. Use modal auxiliaries to convey various conditions.
Examples: can, may, must |
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 5
| 39. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.
a. Evaluate the usage of pronouns for the proper case.
Examples: subjective, objective, possessive
b. Identify inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
c. Use varied pronouns and their antecedents correctly in composing and revising writing.
d. Use subject-verb agreement correctly when composing and revising writing.
e. Use verb tenses to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
f. Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense, including subject-verb agreement.
g. Use perfect verb tenses to compose and revise writing.
h. Use correlative conjunctions correctly when composing and revising writing. |