Written and Oral English Language Conventions

The standards for written and oral English language conventions have been placed between those for writing and for listening and speaking because these conventions are essential to both sets of skills.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions

Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions appropriate to the grade level.

Grammar

1.3 Identify all parts of speech and types and structure of sentences.

1.4 Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g., quotation marks, commas at end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English usage (e.g., pronoun reference).

Punctuation

1.5 Identify hyphens, dashes, brackets, and semicolons and use them correctly.

Capitalization

1.6 Use correct capitalization.

Spelling

1.7 Spell derivatives correctly by applying the spellings of bases and affixes.