Standard 5: Language

Students will apply knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to reading and writing.

Reading

Students will apply knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to analyze and evaluate a variety of texts.

Writing

Students will demonstrate command of Standard English grammar, mechanics, and usage through writing and other modes of communication.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

K.5.R.1 Students will begin to understand the function of grammar through exposure to conversations, read-alouds, and interactive reading.

• Students will begin to recognize complete thoughts.

• Students will begin to understand that words must be in a certain order to make sense.

• Students will begin to understand why sentences begin with a capital letter and contain end punctuation. 

• Teachers explain that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with punctuation.

• Teachers model proper capitalization and punctuation in sentences.

• Teachers provide opportunities to find capital letters and end punctuation in text.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback while developing an understanding of capital letters and end punctuation.

K.5.R.2 Students will recognize concrete objects as persons, places or things (i.e., nouns).

• Students will identify people as concrete objects or nouns.

• Students will identify places as concrete objects or nouns.

• Students will identify things as concrete objects or nouns.

K.5.R.3  Students will recognize words as actions (i.e., verbs).

• Students will identify the action word in a spoken sentence or a read aloud.

• Teachers explain action words.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to act out action words and distinguish action words from other words.

• Teachers model identifying action words in a spoken sentence or read aloud.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to begin to identify action words in a spoken sentence or read aloud.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when identifying action words in a spoken sentence or read aloud.

• Students will group pictures based on spatial and time relationships 

• Teachers explain and model the terminology of time and position words (e.g down, before, and after).

• Teachers group pictures based on time and position words.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to work with the teacher to group pictures based on time and position related words.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback while working to group pictures of time and position related words.

• Students will demonstrate understanding of spatial and time relationships by movement.  

• Teachers explain and model the terminology of time and position related words (e.g up, down, before, and after).

• Teachers explain and model how to show movement based on time and position related words.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to work with the teacher practicing showing movement based on time and position related words.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when showing movements of time and position related words.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

K.5.W.1 Students will capitalize, with guidance and support:

• their first name

• the pronoun “I.”

With guidance and support:

• Students will capitalize the first letter in their name.

• Teachers discuss using correct capitalization when writing names.

• Teachers model capitalizing the first letter in a name.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to trace and independently write their names using correct capitalization.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback while practicing their names using correct capitalization.

With guidance and support:

• Students will capitalize the pronoun “I”.

• Teachers discuss using correct capitalization when using the pronoun “I”.

• Teachers model capitalizing the pronoun “I” during shared writing activities.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to practice capitalizing the pronoun “I” during independent writing time.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback about using correct capitalization of the pronoun “I” during independent writing.

K.5.W.2 Students will begin to compose simple sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with a period or question mark.

•  Students will begin to write a simple sentence.

• Teachers discuss basic rules for creating a simple sentence. (e.g. begin with a capital letter, include end punctuation.)

• Teachers model writing a simple sentence using capitalization and end punctuation.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to begin writing simple sentences using a capital letter at the beginning and punctuation at the end.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when writing simple sentences.

• Students will begin to demonstrate capitalization in their writing.

• Students will begin to demonstrate end punctuation in their writing.