Download 181-190 - Epic Charter Schools

Measures of Academic Progress for Language Usage
RIT Scores between 181 and 190
Writing Strategies
Prewriting Skills
· Create a simple outline
· Write in a selected genre (i.e. a simple fairy tale)
· Create starter sentences
· Categorize around a main topic
· Select appropriate sentences for topic
· List sentence details
· Pre-write sentences that convey purpose of topic
New Vocabulary:
comma, initials, compound sentence, main headings, punctuation
mark, exclamation point, poem, book report, fairy tale,
directions, advertisement, mood, catalog
Writing Applications and Genres
Use Appropriate Format
· Use indentation for new paragraph
Use Sentence Forms Appropriate to Purpose
· Focus on declarative sentence structure
Develop Paragraphs
· When given four simple and compound sentences, choose the
chronological order
· Choose sentence order when writing directions
· When given a 4-6 sentence paragraph, choose the off-topic
sentence
· When given a series of short sentences, choose the group that
iterates one idea
Use Composition Forms
· Write a job application paragraph
· Select appropriate titles for reports
New Vocabulary:
topic sentence, best order, correct order, chronological order,
parts of a letter, passage, complete sentence, main idea
Mechanics
Use Appropriate End Punctuation
· Use correct end punctuation on a collection of sentences
· Use question marks correctly when writing a friendly letter
Use Commas Appropriately
· Use commas in personal greetings
· Use commas in introductory words, (i.e. well, no, sorry)
· Use commas between two main clauses
· Use commas after an introductory clauses
· Use commas after introductory adverbial clauses
· Use commas in a letter closing
· Use commas after direct address
· Use commas between city and state
Use Apostrophes
· Use apostrophes in irregular contractions
Use Enclosing Punctuation
· Use quotation marks for direct conversation
New Vocabulary:
letter, ownership
Capitalization
Use Beginning Capitalization
· Format: Some sentences more complex, beginning with adverb
phrases
· Capitalize the first word in the sentence
· Capitalize the first word in the greeting and closing of a letter
· Capitalize the beginning of each sentence in a short group of
sentences
· Recognize a group of words as a sentence, capitalize first word
· Capitalize first word and names
· Capitalize first word of a quotation
· Identify a sentence in which the first word is not correctly
capitalized
· Capitalize only the first word in a sentence without proper
nouns
Capitalize Proper Nouns and Adjectives
· Format: Towards the end of this range, some of the items
require reading multiple sentences in one passage
· Names of people: full name, including initials and titles
· Book or movie titles
· Professional titles
· Identify nouns correctly or incorrectly capitalized
· Correctly capitalize up to four words in the same sentence
· Places: countries, cities, states, vacation spots
· Distinguish between common and proper nouns
· Pets- names
· Historical events
· Course names
· Names of organizations
Capitalize Pronoun “I”
· Identify or correct several errors including “I” in one sentence
· Identify “I” errors twice in the same sentence
New Vocabulary:
greeting, letter, title, note, list
Grammar Usage
Use Basic Sentence Patterns
· Format: Sentence length is about 10 words, with some more
difficult vocabulary
· Format: Statements, questions, and commands
· Recognize word order specific to a question
· Identify/ recognize complete sentences with adverb phrases or
nouns of direct address at beginning (comma in sentence)
· Select words in two places to form a complete sentence
· Identify a group of words as an incomplete sentence
· Identify sentences containing more than one idea
· Identify the subject and predicate of a sentence
· Identify a group of words that do not form a complete sentence
- requiring very careful reading
· Recognize word order necessary to form a complete sentence
Use Types of Phrases
· Short sentences, simple paragraph
· Understand the meaning of a phrase telling ‘where”
Use Noun Forms
· Recognize a regular plural noun used in a sentence
· Recognize an irregular plural noun used in a sentence
· Recognize the irregular plural form of a noun
· Recognize the correct plural spelling of a noun ending in “y”
Use/Distinguish Verb Tenses
· Format: Sentences become more complex, with more difficult
vocabulary
· Identify the correct past tense form of common irregular verbs
· Recognize or determine the correct use of common irregular
past tense verbs
· Recognize or determine the correct use of past tense helping or
auxiliary verbs
· Determine the correct use of a verb phrase
· Recognize the correct use of gerunds
· Recognize the correct use of regular past tense verbs
· Determine the correct verb tense to use in a sentence
· Recognize or determine the correct use of future tense verbs
and verb phrases
· Identify which word is a verb
· Recognize a sentence that tells past action or events
Use Irregular Verb Forms
· Determine which verb to use in a sentence
· Determine which verb phrase to use in a sentence
· Determine which verb to use in a sentence that has an auxiliary
verb
· Identify the past tense of an irregular verb
Use Subject-Verb Agreement
Recognize the correct use of subjects or verbs in the following
cases:
· Singular or plural subject - verb phrase
· Compound subject or third person plural subject - linking verb
or present participle
· Third person singular subject - auxiliary verb
· Third person singular or plural subject -main verb
· First person plural subject - main verb
Use Adjective Forms
· Use comparative adjectives (-er, -est) correctly
· Use comparatives -good, better, best, correctly
· Identify a word describing a noun in a sentence
· Recognize the correct use of comparative adjectives
· Use superlative adjectives correctly
Use Adverb Forms
· Understand that adverbs can tell “where, when, or how”
Identify adverbs that tell “where”
· Use - ly adverbs correctly
Use Pronoun Forms
· Identify the pronoun used to take the place of “___ and me”
· Use possessive pronouns correctly: their
· Use reflexive pronouns correctly: myself, themselves
· Identity pronouns used to replace singular or plural “things”:
it, them
· Use objective pronouns correctly: her, him
· Recognize the correct and incorrect use of “I” in a compound
subject (“___ and I”)
· Use nominative pronouns correctly by matching gender
· Use indefinite pronouns correctly: everyone
· Identify pronouns used to replace singular or plural nouns: her,
they
Use Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
· Use the correct pronoun in a sentence to match number,
gender, thing in a previous sentence: it, her, they, he, his,
himself
· Identify the noun in one sentence referred to by a nominative
or possessive noun in another
Use Negative Forms Correctly
· Recognize the correct use of only one negative in a sentence:
can’t, anybody; doesn’t, any; have never had any
Spelling
· Format: One- or two-syllable words, with some of threesyllables at upper RIT range
· Recognize misspelled common compound words
· Recognize words misspelled when endings added: double final
consonant, add -ing; drop e, add -ing
· Recognize the correct spelling of root words with suffixes
added: -ous, -y, -less, -ing, -ed
· Distinguish the correct spelling of a word from incorrect
versions
· Identify two words misspelled in one sentence
· Recognize the correct spelling of a plural noun: change “y” to “I”
and add “-es”
· Recognize a sentence in which all words are correctly spelled
(up to 8 words)
· Recognize an incorrectly used homograph in a sentence
New Vocabulary:
subject, predicate, incomplete sentence, run-on sentence,
phrase, verb, plural, question, paragraph, singular, action word,
verb phrase, clause, ellipsis, parentheses (left and right)