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English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 15. Identify the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in published texts.
a. Identify subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase, with inverted word order, and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.
b. Evaluate pronoun usage for number and case.
Examples: subjective, objective, possessive
c. Identify common errors in pronoun usage.
Examples: person, number, ambiguous antecedents | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 16. Identify the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in published texts.
a. Identify commas, parentheses, and dashes that are used to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements in texts from various genres.
Examples: poetry, informational texts, narratives | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 7
| 17. Identify the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.
a. Identify subject-verb agreement with compound subjects joined by correlative and coordinating conjunctions and with collective nouns when verb form depends on the rest of the sentence.
b. Identify the usage of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex statements and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas in a text.
c. Evaluate the functions of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 7
| 18. Identify the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in a variety of texts.
a. Correct improper usage of commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons through peer editing. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 8
| 16. Examine the use of conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.
a. Identify gerunds, participles, infinitives, and clauses.
b. Analyze the effects of active and passive voice and shifts in verb tense.
c. Explain how using simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex statements and questions signals differing relationships among ideas in a text. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 8
| 17. Examine the use of conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in a variety of texts.
a. Correct improper usage of commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, semicolons, hyphens, and dashes through peer editing. |
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