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CURRICULUM MAP FOR PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR IN COMMON CORE LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Punctuation
Use commas, quotations marks, dashes or parentheses to
set off non-restrictive parenthetical elements.
Use commas to separate coordinate adjectives.
Use parentheses, commas, ellipses, and dashes to indicate
a pause or a break.
Recognize the use of parentheses, ellipses, and brackets.
Develop and use colons and semi-colons.
Use ellipsis to indicate an omission.
Nouns
Use nouns as appositives.
Pronouns
Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case.
Recognize and use intensive pronouns.
Recognize inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and
person.
Correct vague pronouns.
Identify and use pronouns as the object of a preposition.
Recognize pronouns as antecedents.
Recognize demonstrative and interrogative pronouns.
Verbs
Recognize transitive, intransitive, verbs of being and
other linking verbs.
Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles,
infinitives) and their function in sentences.
Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative,
interrogative, conditional and subjunctive mood.
Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice
and mood.
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CURRICULUM MAP FOR PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR IN COMMON CORE LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Prepositions
Recognize prepositional phrases as adjectival or
adverbial.
Conjunctions/Interjections
Recognize and use interjections.
Recognize and use correlative and subordinating
conjunctions.
Sentences
Recognize compound subject-predicate pattern.
Recognize the complete subject and predicate of a
sentence.
Choose among simple, compound, complex, and
compound-complex sentences to signal differing
relationships among ideas.
Explain the function of phrases and clauses and their
function in sentences.
Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing
and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.
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