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74851748 GED/HSED Writing 4 Survey
Course Information
Description
In a lab setting, students develop writing skills, such as grammar, sentence structure, and mechanics (spelling of homonyms, capitalization, and punctuation). They use the Writing Process to develop paragraphs and essays. Students practice applying these writing skills while completing HSED coursework and/or GED tests.
Total Credits
2

Course Competencies (Course Outcomes)
  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Apply correct spelling of homonyms
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances
    Oral and/or written proficiency test

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

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