Standard 5: Language

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

12.5.R.1 Students will apply their knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to analyze and evaluate a variety of texts, understanding that usage and convention change over time and using that understanding to manipulate style when appropriate.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

• Students will continue to identify specific instances where authors’/speakers use grammar or other rhetorical strategies to affect audience.

• Teachers model strategies that lead to in-depth rhetorical analysis.
•  Teachers provide opportunities for students to analyze the rhetorical style of a variety of texts.
•  Teachers provide opportunities to make judgments about the use of rhetoric in a variety of texts. Teachers will provide students opportunity to receive feedback on their rhetorical analyses.    

• Students will continue to explain the effect of an author’s or speaker’s’ use grammar and rhetorical strategies on audiences.

• Students will continue to make judgments about the effectiveness of an author’s or speaker’s use of grammar and rhetorical strategies on audiences.

• Students will continue to understand language conventions and usage evolve.

• Students will change their own writing style to match purpose and audience. 

Supporting Resources 

Teacher Insights

• OAS Grammar Companion
• Purdue Online Writing Lab 

• Students must read texts with complex language and style to evaluate the impact of the author’s rhetoric.

• Students must be able to identify elements of grammar or style that particularly stand out in a text and discuss the impact of those elements.

Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.