Standards - English Language Arts

Determine credibility and appropriateness of a research source by distinguishing between fact and the author’s opinion in informational text.

Analyze how two or more texts address similar topics in diverse media and formats, including graphics, live and/or recorded performances, and written works.

Explain how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the overall meaning and tone of a text.

Compare and contrast the approaches to theme in several stories within a genre.

Locate information quickly within a text and apply information from multiple sources to analysis of the topics.

Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

Compare the approaches of several authors of articles about the same or similar topics.

Review the key ideas expressed in a text and draw conclusions, using facts to support them.

Use audio and/or visual sources of information to obtain the answer to a question.

Summarize in writing a variety of texts, stating their implied and/or explicit main ideas.

Use textual evidence to support summarization.

Cite appropriately when summarizing.

Quote literary and informational texts accurately to support conclusions and inferences drawn from them.

Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to enhance the development of main ideas or themes when appropriate.

Respond in writing to literature and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts, independently and with grade-level proficiency.

Write fluently and legibly in cursive, using correctly formed letters with appropriate spacing and placing text elements correctly on the page.

Write personal or fictional narratives incorporating literary elements (characters, plot, setting, conflict), dialogue, strong voice, and clear event sequences.

Write informative or explanatory texts using multiple sources to examine a topic, conveying ideas and information clearly and incorporating a strong organizational structure, relevant details, and elaboration.

Write an argument to persuade the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim, supporting the claim with relevant evidence from sources, using connectives to link ideas, and presenting a strong conclusion.

Write about research findings independently over short and/or extended periods of time.

Gather information on a topic or question, and share the results through various modes of writing, including projects and presentations.

Locate information in print and digital sources.

Summarize, quote, and paraphrase information in notes and finished work, providing a list of sources.

Integrate information from several texts on the same topic into presentations of research.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.

Evaluate the usage of pronouns for the proper case.

Identify inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.

Use varied pronouns and their antecedents correctly in composing and revising writing.

Use subject-verb agreement correctly when composing and revising writing.

Use verb tenses to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.

Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense, including subject-verb agreement.

Use perfect verb tenses to compose and revise writing.

Use correlative conjunctions correctly when composing and revising writing.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Use commas to separate items in a series, separate introductory elements from the rest of a sentence, set off tag questions, and indicate direct address.