Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend texts and communicate effectively.

Reading:  Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend, analyze, and/or evaluate a variety of texts.

2.5.R.1

Students will recognize a phrase.

Students will recognize the parts of a simple sentence.

Students will recognize simple and compound sentences.

Students will explain how simple sentences are combined to create compound sentences using a conjunction.

2.5.R.2

Students will recognize parts of speech in sentences:

• common, proper, and irregular plural nouns
• tenses of verbs (i.e., past, present, future)
• the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence
• descriptive adjectives and articles (i.e., a, an, the) as adjectives
• prepositions

Students will recognize parts of speech in sentences:

• common, proper, and irregular plural nouns
• tenses of verbs (i.e., past, present, future)
• the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence
• descriptive adjectives and articles (i.e., a, an, the) as adjectives
• prepositions
• singular and plural personal pronouns and the nouns they replace
• the conjunctions and, or, and but 

Students will recognize parts of speech in sentences:

• common, proper, and irregular plural nouns
• tenses of verbs (i.e., past, present, future)
• the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence
• descriptive adjectives and articles (i.e., a, an, the) as adjectives
• prepositions
• singular and plural personal pronouns and the nouns they replace
• the conjunctions and, or, and but
• -ly adverbs

Students will recognize and explain parts of speech in sentences:

• concrete, abstract, possessive, common, proper, and irregular plural nouns
• tenses of verbs (i.e., past, present, future)
• the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence
• descriptive adjectives
• prepositions
• singular and plural personal pronouns and the nouns they replace
• the conjunctions and, or, and but
• -ly adverbs

2.5.W.1

Students will compose simple declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences that begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark.

Students will compose simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory sentences that begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark with prompting.

Students will compose simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences that begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark.

Students will compose simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences that begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark in independent writing.

2.5.W.2

Students will use nouns and verbs correctly in their writing.

Students will use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to add clarity and variety to their writing with prompting.

Students will use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to add clarity and variety to their writing.

Students will use nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions to add clarity and variety to their writing.

2.5.W.3

Students will capitalize holidays, product names, and months and days of the week.

Students will capitalize holidays, product names, initials, and months and days of the week.

Students will punctuate initials and capitalize holidays, product names, initials, and months and days of the week.

Students will punctuate initials and capitalize holidays, product names, initials, months and days of the week, and geographical locations.

2.5.W.4

Students will use periods with declarative and imperative sentences.

Students will use periods with declarative and imperative sentences, and question marks with interrogative sentences.

Students will use periods with declarative and imperative sentences, question marks with interrogative sentences, and exclamation points with exclamatory sentences.

Students will use periods with declarative and imperative sentences, question marks with interrogative sentences, and exclamation points with exclamatory sentences in independent writing.

2.5.W.5

Students will recognize when to replace two words with a simple contraction (e.g., isn’t, aren’t, can’t) in writing.

Students will use apostrophes to form simple contractions (e.g., isn’t, aren’t, can’t) with prompting.

Students will use apostrophes to form simple contractions (e.g., isn’t, aren’t, can’t).

Students will use apostrophes to form simple and more complex contractions (e.g., aren’t, should’ve, won’t).

2.5.W.6

Students will capitalize the month in dates and write dates in the correct order. 

Students will use commas in dates (e.g., September 6, 2020) with prompting.

Students will use commas in dates (e.g., September 6, 2020).

Students will use commas in dates (e.g., September 6, 2020) and begin to use commas to separate individual words in a series.

2.5.W.7

Students will identify a colon in a written time (e.g., 3:15).

Students will use a colon to indicate time (e.g., The bell rings at 3:15.) with prompting.

Students will use a colon to indicate time (e.g., The bell rings at 3:15.).

Students will correctly use a colon to indicate time in various contexts.