-
Interpret informational and nonfiction text
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Achieve a minimum of 70% accuracy on comprehension test or performance
-
Compose complete sentences: simple, compound, complex with correct punctuation
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Sentence beginnings are varied by using prepositional phrases, dependent clauses, and transitional words and phrases
Sentences are written using varied structure: simple, compound, and complex sentences
Sentence errors are revised to eliminate run-ons, comma splices, and fragments
Word choice is appropriate to the audience
Achieve a minimum of 70% accuracy
-
Apply capitalization rules
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
you master capitalization rules at a minimum of 70% accuracy.
you correct capitalization errors in written materials at a minimum 70% accuracy.
you follow rules of capitalization according to established guidelines.
-
Apply correct spelling of homonyms
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
Oral and/or written proficiency test
-
Apply punctuation rules: end punctuation, the apostrophe, the comma
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Achieve a minimum of 70% accuracy
-
Use correct grammar
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, conjunctions (connectors), interjections. and prepositions
Use the form and function of words, phrases, and clauses
Use correct tenses
you employ principles of agreement, including subject-verb, pronoun-noun, and objective pronouns with prepositions.
Differentiate between subject and objective pronouns
Use possessives
-
Create written documents
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
Criteria
Evidence-based essay (Extended Response) meets the standard per the rubric