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Measures of Academic Progress for Language Usage RIT Scores between 201 and 210 Writing Strategies Prewriting Skills · Choose formal or informal language · Select purpose of paragraph · Choose syntax that illustrates point of view · Outline expository mode Drafting and Revising Skills · Use participial phrases in correct word order · Use of figurative speech in context · Select the best title for a piece of work · Use precise language · Correct use of transitional expressions · Use vivid descriptors · Use adverbial clauses in complex sentences · Avoid run-on sentences · Use sentence variety · Use correct word order when using adjective phrases Use Editing and Proofreading Processes · Use capitals in magazine, newspaper, essay and titles · Use commas in letter closure · Punctuate introductory dependant clauses · Capitalize inside addresses · Punctuate non-essential parenthetical phrases with commas New Vocabulary: run-on sentence, formal and informal language, composition, simile, subheading, detail, subdetail, style, figure of speech, suffix, capitalization, caret (editing mark), research report, apostrophe Writing Applications and Genres Use Appropriate Format · Combine sentences into paragraph structure Use Sentence Forms Appropriate to Purpose · Focus on exclamatory sentence structure Develop Paragraphs · Choose the best definition for the term “topic sentence” · Look for patterns of organization in a paragraph · Order sentences into a concise paragraph · Give directions in a systematic order Use Composition Forms · Use correct business letter structure · Define parts of a research paper · Define purposes of poetry (i.e. feelings, moods, expressions) · Define paragraph by genre · Identify parts of the newspaper New Vocabulary: exclamatory sentence, encyclopedia, supporting detail Mechanics Use Appropriate End Punctuation · Identify different meanings of the same sentence when end punctuation is changed · Identify incorrect end punctuation · Identify periods when given a paragraph Use Commas Appropriately · Use commas after a direct address in an imperative sentence · Use commas after participial phrases in a lengthy paragraph · Use commas between two main clauses in a complex sentence · Use commas in non-essential parenthetical phrases · Use commas around interrupting phrases contained within the sentence Use Apostrophes · Use apostrophes in possessive plurals · Use apostrophes with helping verb and “not” Use Enclosing Punctuation · Use quotations in titles · Use parentheses around non-essential phrases New Vocabulary: parentheses, hyphen, rough draft Capitalization Use Beginning Capitalization · Capitalize the first word in the greeting and closing of a letter · Capitalize the first word in the sentence · Capitalize first word of a quotation · Generalize rules of when to capitalize the first word: sentences, poems, letter greetings · Distinguish sentences using quotations that are not capitalized correctly · Capitalize the first word in the sentence and the first word of a quotation · Capitalize the first word in the sentence, the first word of a quotation, and proper nouns · Capitalize the beginning of each sentence in a group of sentences, including quotations within sentences · Capitalize only the first word in a multi-word greeting or closing 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: Longer passages in many of the items · Full names, including titles and initials · Particular places, points of interest, buildings, monuments · Radio and TV station initials · All titles: which words should and should not be capitalized · Teams, organization, government bodies · Countries and continents · Historical events and eras · Companies, stores, products · Differentiate between similar common and proper nouns · Classes, schools · Compass directions: when they are correctly and incorrectly capitalized · Ships · Identify proper nouns New Vocabulary: closing, book title, paragraph Grammar Usage Use Basic Sentence Patterns · Sentences have more complex syntax and phrasing, more difficult vocabulary · Recognize complete and incomplete sentences (first time this term appears) · Identify compound sentences · Identify sentence patterns (some articles and possessive pronouns used in short, simple sentences): noun-verb, nounverb-noun · Change the word order and keep the same meaning · Add a phrase to form a complete sentence · Recognize a group of words as an incomplete sentence or a question · Name the two main parts of a sentence · Verbalize what sentence part is needed to form a complete sentence: subject, object, adjective, or subordinate clause Use Types of Phrases · Vocabulary: prepositional phrase · Identify a prepositional phrase · Recognize a phrase telling “which” Use Types of Clauses · Understand the intended meaning of a particular clause Use Noun Forms · Recognize the correct plural form of a noun · Understand the meaning of a singular possessive noun · Recognize the correct irregular plural form of a noun · Identify which word is not a plural noun · Recognize the correct use of a plural noun in a sentence · Distinguish possessive nouns from contractions · Recognize a collective noun as being singular, distinguishing it from plural nouns Use/Distinguish Verb Tenses · Identify sentences that tell past, present, or future · Understand the tense and meaning of verbs, replace with similar verbs of the same tense and meaning · Determine the correct verb tense to use in a sentence · Determine the correct verb form to use in a sentence: irregular verbs, verbs used with auxiliary verbs · Identify present tense verbs · Determine the correct verb phrase to use in a sentence Use Irregular Verb Forms · Format: Difficulty of vocabulary increases in this RIT range · Determine which verb to use in sentences with or without auxiliary verbs Use Subject-Verb Agreement Recognize the correct use of subjects or verbs in the following cases: · Singular subject - linking verb · Singular subject - main verb · Plural subject - linking verb · Plural subject - auxiliary verb Use Adjective Forms · Use comparatives “less, least” correctly · Understand the meaning of comparative adjectives · Identify adjectives used in a sentence · Recognize correctly and incorrectly used comparative forms Use Adverb Forms · Understand that adverbs can tell “where, when, or how”; Identify adverbs that tell “when” · Use comparative adverbs correctly · Understand the meaning of comparative adverbs Use Pronoun Forms · Format: Difficulty of vocabulary and sentence length and complexity increase at this level · Recognize the correct and incorrect use of nominative, objective, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns · Use objective pronouns correctly in a complex sentence: Everyone except ___. · Recognize correct and incorrect use of “their, they’re, and there” · Identify the noun replaced by a pronoun · Use reflexive pronouns correctly: themselves Use Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement · Replace more than one noun with the correct pronouns, matching gender and type of pronoun: nominative, objective, and possessive · Use the correct pronoun in one sentence to match the number and gender in another: them Use Negative Forms Correctly · Recognize the correct use of only one negative in a sentence: no more than; hasn’t any · Recognize that two negatives in a sentence is not Standard English · Use “n’t” contractions correctly Spelling · Format: Generally more difficult, commonly misspelled words · Recognize correctly and incorrectly applied basic spelling rules when adding endings or affixes · Recognize when to double final consonant before adding ending · Distinguish the correct spelling of a word from incorrect versions · Identify which word is or is not spelled correctly New Vocabulary: fragment, compound sentence, prepositional phrase, present tense, adjective, nonstandard English, linking verb, adverb, possessive, dependent clause