ELA21.5.33

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

ELA21.5.33
Write fluently and legibly in cursive, using correctly formed letters with appropriate spacing and placing text elements correctly on the page.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:

Legible writing can be read by others.
Fluent writing is writing at a consistent pace.
Cursive writing strokes for all letters.
Cursive writing connects the letters within words.
Appropriate spacing should occur between words.
Text elements, like headings, titles, and paragraph indentations, must be located in a certain place on a page.

Skills

Students are able to:

Write legibly in cursive at a steady pace.
Connect and correctly form cursive letters.
Include appropriate spacing between words.
Place text elements, like headings, titles, and paragraph indentations, in the correct location on a page.

Understanding

Students understand that:

Cursive writing is a special type of writing that connects letters within words.
Appropriate spacing is important so that readers can tell where one cursive word ends and the next begins.
There are standard conventions for text elements that should be followed in formal writing.

Vocabulary

Fluently
Legibly
Cursive
Correctly formed letters
Appropriate spacing
Text elements

COS Examples

Examples: headings, titles, paragraph indentions

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