Download 211-220 - Epic Charter Schools

Measures of Academic Progress for Language Usage
RIT Scores between 211 and 220
Writing Strategies
Prewriting Skills
· Create comprehensive outlines
· Use compound sentence selection
· Outline verbiage for imaginative stories
· Categorize using main topic as guideline
Drafting and Revising Skills
· Revise syntax for correct order
· Use subject-verb agreement
· Use a variety of sentences from simple to complex
· Use infinitive phrases to denote emphasis
· Use subordinating clauses
· Edit for misplaced modifiers
· Combine sentences to make compound and complex
· Use parts of a news story for complete description of an event
· Write strong conclusions
Use Editing and Proofreading Processes
· Use commas in a series of participial phrases
· Use strong topic sentences with strong verbs
· Use capitals in a letter closure
· Use abbreviations in appropriate places
New Vocabulary:
tone, summary, synonym, personification, metaphor, fantasy,
complex sentence, rough draft, personal narrative
Writing Applications and Genres
Use Appropriate Format
· Edit sentences into multi-paragraphs
· Use standard forms of indentation
Use Sentence Forms Appropriate to Purpose
· Use of vocabulary of declarative, imperative, interrogative and
exclamatory terms
Develop Paragraphs
· Review several paragraphs and choose the best organization
· Determine the pattern of organization in a lengthy passage
· Choose best opening paragraph in a narrative piece of writing
· Determine method of organization (i.e. order of events, from
examples to main idea, go from main idea to examples)
· Select clear details for paragraph
Use Composition Forms
· Write limericks
· Define composition forms in lengthy passages
New Vocabulary:
limerick, formal essay, drama, declarative sentence, imperative
sentence, interrogative sentence, tone, mood, pattern of
organization
Mechanics
Use Appropriate End Punctuation
· Identify correct punctuation in a 16-20 word compound
sentence
· Use correct punctuation when sentence ends with an
abbreviation
· Identify correct punctuation in a 5-7 sentence paragraph
Use Commas Appropriately
· Use commas in a direct quotation
· Use commas between two main clauses in a compound complex
sentence
· Use commas around non-essential phrases
Use Apostrophes
· Use apostrophes for subject and helping verb contractions
Use Enclosing Punctuation
· Use quotations in quoted material
· Use single quotation inside quotation marks
Use Underlining for Titles
· Underline movie titles
· Underline magazine titles
New Vocabulary:
possessive noun
Capitalization
Use Beginning Capitalization
· Format: Sentences contain various combinations of correctly
and incorrectly used capital letters, generally relating to use in
quotations, but also first words in sentences, proper/ common
nouns, capitalizing multiple sentences in a paragraph
· Capitalize only the first word in the greeting and closing of a
letter with no proper nouns
· In a quotation, capitalize only the first word if the sentence
continues past the part identifying the speaker
Capitalize Proper Nouns and Adjectives
· Format: Most of the items in this range require correct
identification of more that one capitalization error, either
missing capitals or incorrect capitals
· Format: Most items also call on finer distinctions between
common and proper nouns, depending on how they are used in
the sentence (Mother, my mother)
· Countries, nationalities, languages
· Holidays, special events
· All titles: what to capitalize and what not to capitalize
· Places, rivers, parks, bridges, monuments.
· Artistic groups
· Compass directions - when to capitalize and when not to
· Buildings, businesses, stores
· Generalize capitalization rules
· Full names, including titles
New Vocabulary:
none
Grammar Usage
Use Basic Sentence Patterns
· Identify sentence patterns (sentences with articles, simple
adjectives): noun-verb, noun-verb-noun, noun-verb-verb
· Identify the subject of a sentence
· Identify a sentence as simple or compound
· Complete sentences correctly with words or phrases
· Recognize complete complex sentences
· Recognize sentences with clear meaning and correct form
· Identify sentence fragments
· Name the part of the sentence needed to complete a sentence:
adjective to complete the linking verb
Use Types of Phrases
· Recognize what part of the sentence a prepositional phrase
modifies
· Recognize a prepositional phrase used as an adjective
· Recognize the meaning of a verb phrase
Use Types of Clauses
· Identify the main clause in a sentence
Use Noun Forms
· Recognize which is not a correct irregular plural noun
· Identify a plural possessive noun
· Distinguish plural nouns from singular collective nouns, nouns
that end in “s”, and possessive nouns
· Identify a noun that is an idea or a feeling, not just a person,
place, or thing
Use/Distinguish Verb Tenses
· Determine the correct verb form to use in a sentence
· Identify the verb form not used correctly in a sentence
· Recognize verbs that have the same form for both present and
past tense
· Understand that there are names for various parts of speech;
identify which word in a sentence is the verb
· Understand that sentences tell past, present, or future; identify
which sentence tells past
· Understand the meaning of a complex verb phrase
Use Irregular Verb Forms
· Identify the verb form not correctly used in a sentence
· Determine which verb to use in a sentence in which the
auxiliary verb is separated from the main verb
· Identify troublesome irregular verbs (lie/ lay, sit/ set, etc.)
· Determine which verb form is correctly used in a complex
sentence
Use Subject-Verb Agreement
Recognize the correct use of subjects or verbs in the following
cases:
· First person singular subject - main verb
· Identify a singular subject by recognizing form of the verb in
the predicate
Use Adjective Forms
· Recognize that adjectives are words that describe things
· Use comparatives “-y, -ier, -iest” correctly
· Understand that there are names for various parts of speech;
identify which word in a sentence is the adjective
· Understand the use of the adjective-forming suffix “-al” when
added to nouns ending in –“tion” (inspiration, inspirational)
· Understand that comparative -er means to compare two things
· Understand the correct use of “good” as an adjective, not an
adverb
Use Adverb Forms
· Format: Longer sentences, more difficult vocabulary
· Recognize correct and incorrect use of adverbs, including
comparative adverb forms
· Recognize correct and incorrect comparative adverb forms for
words ending in -ly
Use Pronoun Forms
· Understand that there are names for various parts of speech;
identify which word in a sentence is the pronoun
· Understand the meaning of a pronoun: “all of us” = “we”
· Use nominative case pronouns correctly
· Recognize the correct and incorrect use of “I” in a compound
subject or in a list
· Recognize the correct and incorrect use of reflexive,
nominative, possessive, and objective pronouns
· Recognize the correct and incorrect use of reflexive pronouns:
themselves, itself, herself, ourselves
· Use nominative pronouns correctly in compound subjects
· Use indefinite pronouns in a phrase correctly: “___ of the
people were” (few, each, one, either)
Use Negative Forms Correctly
· Recognize the correct use of negatives “hardly” and “scarcely”
Spelling
· Troublesome spelling patterns:
· -ance/ -ence
· ei/ ie
· -ary/ -ery
· plural form of words ending in “o”
New Vocabulary:
modifies, main clause, plural possessive, irregular verb, simple
sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, compoundcomplex sentence