revise drafts for coherence, organization, use of simple and compound sentences, and audience
edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling using a teacher-developed rubric
spell words with more advanced orthographic patterns and rules: (i) plural rules (e.g., words ending in f as in leaf, leaves; adding -es), (ii) irregular plurals (e.g., man/men, foot/feet, child/children), (iii) double consonants in middle of words, (iv) other ways to spell sh (e.g., -sion, -tion, -cian), (v) silent letters (e.g., knee, wring)
use the complete subject and the complete predicate in a sentence
recognize and use punctuation marks including: (i) commas in compound sentences, (ii) quotation marks
spell commonly used homophones (e.g., there, they're, their; two, too, to)
use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: (i) verbs (irregular verbs), (ii) nouns (singular/plural, common/proper), (iii) adjectives (e.g., descriptive, including purpose: sleeping bag, frying pan) and their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., fast, faster, fastest), (iv) adverbs (e.g., frequency: usually, sometimes; intensity: almost, a lot), (v) prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey location, time, direction, or to provide details, (vi) reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves), (vii) correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor), (viii) use time-order transition words and transitions that indicate a conclusion
use spelling patterns and rules and print and electronic resources to determine and check correct spellings
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