Standard 5: Language

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

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

Understanding 

Objectives 

Approaching 

8.5.W.1

Students independently write using correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.

8.5.W.1

Students will write using correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semi-colons.

Developing 

8.5.W.1

Students attempt to write using correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semi-colons.

8.5.W.1  

Students need guidance and support to write using correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.

8.5.W.2

Students need guidance and support to compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas.

8.5.W.2

Students attempt to compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas.

8.5.W.2

Students independently compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas.

8.5.W.2

Students will compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas.

8.5.W.3

Students need guidance and support to use verbals (e.g., gerunds, participles, infinitives) in writing.

8.5.W.3

Students attempt to use verbals (e.g., gerunds, participles, infinitives) in writing.

8.5.W.3

Students independently use verbals (e.g., gerunds, participles, infinitives) in writing.

8.5.W.3

Students will use verbals (e.g., gerunds, participles, infinitives) in writing.

8.5.W.4

Students attempt to form and use verbs in the active and passive voice with guidance and support. 

8.5.W.4

Students attempt to form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.   

8.5.W.4

Students independently form and use verbs in the active and passive voice. 

8.5.W.4

Students will form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.

8.5.W.5

Students need guidance and support to form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.

8.5.W.5

Students attempt to form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.

8.5.W.5

Students independently form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.

8.5.W.5

Students will form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.

 Instructional Guidance 

Deeper

Acquisition